A train is about as likely to hit an animal as a motor vehicle. During my 5-year tenure on the railroad, trains I was on hit three cows, several dogs, several opossums, and an owl.
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Elephants do it in countries with elephants. Cattle generally can't in North America...old engines had cowcatchers that actually did push wayward animals off the track when the engine hit them, but in the UK some years back a train between Glasgow and Edinburgh (IIRC) hit a cow and was derailed.
HOW SAFE ARE TRAINS? Trains are statistically much safer than driving. In 2020, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics recorded 40,867 total deaths from travel, including in planes, in cars on highways and on trains.