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    18 hours ago

    Yes. In the opposite direction, gradually. It’s called deceleration. The mass of the train would spread the impact of Superman hitting and slowing it across the entire train, rather than the frame of a tiny human going from not very fast, to super man flying speed. At least that’s how I’m rationalizing it with rudimentary physics. I’m probably wrong.