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When I was a kid of about 11 years old, we use to hang around on the SP cars that had been side tracked about a block away from my house. One day, one of the guys climbed up the ladder on a box car and started turning the break wheel-which you might know was the only one keeping the cars from going anywhere. All of a sudden, the ground starts to slowly move by. At first I thought maybe I was just having a dizzy spell, but no, the cars were actually moving, and finally began making the chuckidy chuck sound as they began to build up a pretty good speed rolling down hill toward the end of the tracks about a half mile away. We jumped off and ran like hell, but lucky for us they slowed down and stopped on their own just a few yards from a busy road. Another incident was when one of my buddies threw a lever on the side of a gondola car I was standing in and it turned up and dumped me out on the ground. As I went to stand up next to the car, it began settling back down and just before the open side slammed closed one of the guys grabbed me and pulled me down, or else my head would have been crushed like a grape... The last straw came when we had established a club house in an old box car that had sat where it was so long that vines had grown all over it. Back in one corner of the car we had a box where we kept out wine, cigarettes and dirty books that we looked forward to after school in the evenings. One evening we hurried down to the tracks to induldge in our sinful goodies only to find that the railroad had taken our box car and all of our stuff away... Talk about some heart broken kids. I've got a number of other stories, but I'll turn the floor over to someone else for now. Trainluver1
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