Any railroad employees?

I worked in the railway here as a Fettler....thats the bloke that replaces sleepers, rails, straighten rails, lubes the joints and points.....that sort of thing.
I lived in a bondwood hut near the line, shared it with some a%$#holes.
I was wakened one night, about 2am, by one of the a#$%Holes, who threatened me with a knife, to make a meal for him.....he was drunk....I wasn't.....I told him to get f%$ked, so he went for me with the knife.....he soon had his face in the floor, and a good hit on the head by the table on his way down......I left him there, packed my bag and left.....never went back.....that was 23 years ago.
There no joints anymore, and they have machines to replace rails,sleepers....so that job would be gone now.