Last updated November 25, 2010 11:03 p.m. PT
A woman was fatally struck by an Amtrak train Thursday afternoon near Golden Gardens Park after she did not react to the train's air horn, police reported.
Medics were called at 2:09 p.m. to the area near Northwest Neptune Place and Northwest 100th Street. The woman, 41, died at the scene.
The train, Amtrak's Empire Builder, was going south traveling from Chicago to Seattle when the engineer saw the woman walking on the tracks.
The train engineer immediately started the emergency stop procedures, which included repeated sounding of the trains air horn, Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said. Police estimated the train was traveling about 40 mph and the woman didn't react to the horn.
As the train got closer, the engineer saw the woman was wearing headphones, police said.
The area around the collision was blocked for several hours as police investigators evaluated the scene. The King County Medical Examiner's Office has not released the woman's name, pending family notification.
An Amtrak spokesperson was not immediately available Thursday.
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