Coins on Train Tracks

itsnotjustme · February 25, 2007 4:25AM

As a kid, we used to put pennies and nickels on the tracks when a train was coming.

Best case would:
1) Be found
2) Be smoothly and totally elongated
3) Have the image still visible

Middle case would:
1) Be found
2) Be partially or not at all elongated, or dented

Worst case would:
1) Not be found.

Iran has obtained the technology to produce nuclear fuel and Iran's move is like a train ... which has no brake and no reverse gear," Ahmadinejad said. Who wants to ride a train with no brake?

PRTCOINS · February 25, 2007 4:44AM

Yes I think we probably all have done that with coins as children but what has IRAN have to do with it?

bfjohnson · February 25, 2007 4:46AM

If you add a "T" and rearrange the letters of Iran you have train.

I also paid 50 cents plus a penny yesterday to squash the penny into a snake design at the zoo.

ajaan · February 25, 2007 4:47AM

Interesting. I was at a coin show today and while looking through a box of World coins, the 5 for a $1 type coins, I saw a flattened US Half Cent. It surely looked like it was run over by a train. I was kidding with the seller that it should be put on eBay with a description telling how it was placed on the tracks so that Lincoln's 'death' train could runover it.

itsnotjustme · February 25, 2007 4:49AM

The news clip on Iran made me think of it......

StrikeOutXXX · February 25, 2007 4:53AM

Aaah, such fond memories of misplaced youth...

Michigan · February 25, 2007 4:57AM

<< <i>The news clip on Iran made me think of it...... >>

I have put Lincoln cents on railroad tracks as a kid, the railroads frown on that kind of thing of course.

A US attack on Iran looks inevitable at this point, just a matter of when Bush decides to do it.

Artist · February 25, 2007 5:17AM

I try to smash a penny every time I visit The Grove in West Hollywood. They have a trolly car there - it doesn't smash them as good as a real train, but it does do some damage. It's tough to do though so that no one sees what you are up to.

Coxe · February 25, 2007 5:17AM

Used to stack them and get designs blending. Tried to made crude die-like inverses that sort of way too. It was definitely part of growing up back then. Close calls a couple times that still send shivers up my spine. Today with those quiet passenger trains, it would be pretty risky.

itsnotjustme · February 25, 2007 5:40AM

Here's one for risk! I think the tracks are monitored, so you would also risk arrest!

300 Kilometers per Hour that 186 MPH! We rode this to Paris.

kevinstang · February 25, 2007 5:49AM

Found this one last year while metal detecting in my backyard ( I live in an old train depot and old tracks were out back)- someone didn't find it after getting run over! I think you could make out it was a memorial cent because the "of" was just barely visible around border still on reverse. Found the old canadian penny nearby.

VicDaewoo · February 25, 2007 6:33PM

can we put a coin and Ahmadinejad on a track and see what happens?

Coins on Train Tracks

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