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Did You Ever Put A Coin On A Railroad Track

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 Posted 10/27/2010  04:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add latman100 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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 Posted 10/27/2010  05:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wd1040 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yeah, the above photo shows what happens when you move on from hot wheels to actual cars

God bless that... hope no one got injured in the picture...
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 Posted 10/27/2010  1:20 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add carmykle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
It appears to be a relatively low speed derailment. I sincerely hope no one was hurt!

But, if by chance a kid had just put a coin on the tracks, how fast and how far do you think he ran? For extra credit...And what was the color of his pants?
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10/27/2010 1:22 pm
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 Posted 10/27/2010  2:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add COINAHOLIC to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
carmykle

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For extra credit...And what was the color of his pants?



Brown



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is that a real sgs grade?


Slab is real SGS, (whatever that means ) The coin and Last Strike designation were photo shopped.
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aw man I was hoping it was real
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 Posted 10/27/2010  4:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add General Tso to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I used to do coins and junk keys.
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 Posted 10/27/2010  8:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add just carl to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
When we were kids we put pennies on RR tracks all the time. Also, back then we had what was called Street Cars that ran on tracks in the streets and pennies were put there also.
We also place them on trees and shot at them with .22 cal guns, pellet guns, BB guns. There was this add for a knife called the Black Forest Hunting Knife that was supposed to be able to go through a coin. I ordered ten of them and tried and tried but usually broke the blades.
We bounced coins off sidewalks, threw them in Rivers, Lakes, wishing wells, fountains. Buried them in places where they were pouring concrete. Put some in bottles and threw in fast moving Rivers and buried some. Many were melted in Chem labs for experiments too.
Some Copper pennies were also brazed to other metal objects for fun. Like the pillars that hold up overhead trains.
Not sure but I think when we were kids we did everything possible to distroy coins.
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 Posted 10/27/2010  10:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DNA to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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The engineer obviously chose to derail the train, rather than run over
the 1930 Australian Penny that latman100 put on the track...




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10/27/2010 10:16 pm
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You sure he didn't see an 09SVDB on the tracks and tried stopping too fast so he could go grab it?
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 Posted 10/29/2010  01:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add latman100 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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The engineer obviously chose to derail the train, rather than run over
the 1930 Australian Penny that latman100 put on the track...


I've seen one that looked like it may have been run over for sale at $8,000. I wonder how many good coins have been lost this way....

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And some very collectible vintage Hot Wheels (ahem)
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I believe latman100 put a slabbed coin there. Have anyone else done THAT?
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that's another way to open a slab...
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