From: finfer@optonline.net   
      
   On 12/21/2014 9:46 AM, Nick Sandru wrote:   
   > On 12/10/2014 02:09 PM, Byker wrote:   
   >> "BeamMeUpScotty"  wrote in message   
   >> news:AL%hw.1066862$yK.437737@fx14.iad...   
   >>>   
   >>> Seems like Darwin was marking this one for extinction.   
   >>   
   >> As kids we did the same thing with pennies, only we always backed off to   
   >> a safe distance   
   >>   
   > When I was a kid I used to put coins and matchsticks on the streetcar   
   > track near my school. When the streetcar ran over the matchsticks they   
   > made a nice popping sound.   
   >   
   > Once, during a summer vacation, I filled a tin box with water, added   
   > some carbide, put the lid on it and glued it to the rail with tar. When   
   > the train ran over it it blew with a loud bang. The engineer hit the   
   > brakes - and me and my friends hit the nearby woods...   
   >   
   > --   
   > Nick Sandru   
   > Somerville NJ   
   >   
      
   I remember when I was very young, my father took me to the LIRR station   
   in Long Beach, in third rail territory, when the station had low   
   platforms, to put coins on the track.  That gives me the willies now.   
      
   Michael Finfer   
   Bridgewater, NJ   
      
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