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Unfortunately, when I was a kid, it happened to me. I was watching a Conrail train near Superior Ave. in downtown Cleveland. A train of auto carriers was passing at high speed, this was on an elevated line running north to the lake front. I was with my younger brother and two younger friends, and I don't remember how, but little by little we got closer crossing over several tracks until we were standing next to the train. We had been standing there for what seemed a while, when we heard rumbling of locomotives. The others were going to run, and I told them to stay. It was pretty scary, the wind was strong and there is a vertigo effect. There is also a signal bridge in the same place that we would climb and watch from above. I lived in Solon, Ohio and the local peddler freight to Chagrin Falls passed my yard daily for the at that time Norfolk & Western, the tracks were originaly W&LE. And I did a lot of stupid things. I would jump on the train, if I could catch it. I think they tried to speed up if they saw me waiting, but that stretch of track was a very steep grade. I only did that a couple of times though, usually I would just wave. There was also a girder bridge and trestle over a nearby creek where we would swim in the summer, and a couple of times I sat just below the ties on the bridge or hung over the side by my hands while the train passed. I now know just how increadibly stupid it was. My dad grew up in a small town in rural Hungary, and he told me once he and some freinds tied a cable between two trees across a cut and knocked off the tall smoke stack of a steam locomotive, this was in the late thirties.
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