If you lived near railroad tracks

[Pappy]

did you ever put pennies on the tracks and wait for a train to pass?



And have have them end up like this.

 

[Keesha]

YES all the time. It was fun.
We lived near a railroad track and did this all the time.
I loved the smell of the tar at railroad tracks and the sound of them as they passed through.
Oddly enough I miss the train.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I never did, we were always lectured about derailing a train, getting arrested for defacing money or getting hit by a train.

I did waste 51 cents to ruin a penny in one of these machines though!

 

[Keesha]

:lofl: Aunt Bea.
You weren’t allowed to deface a penny via the railroad track method but it was perfectly fine to pay an outrageous amount of money to do so with a fancy machine?
No wonder I turned into a rebel :laugh:

 

[oldbeachgal]

Oh my goodness. I have not thought about all the times we would put the pennies on the tracks, for a long time!! It used to be so fun! Now it sounds dangerous! How times have changed in the past 50 years!

 

[Pappy]

Oh my goodness. I have not thought about all the times we would put the pennies on the tracks, for a long time!! It used to be so fun! Now it sounds dangerous! How times have changed in the past 50 years!

Your so right ski. You would get arrested for attempting to derail the train.

 

[hollydolly]

No we never had any pennies to spare, but my grandfather lived with the rail line right behind his house... so we could have done...

 

[squatting dog]

squashed a penny or two in my time. the real fun however was heading down to the tracks to a spot where some water had worn a groove under them. Just enough room to lay down there and let a train roll over the top of you. You could feel the rails bouncing off your shirt. (Oh the things you do when you're young and think you're invisible).