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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by tatans</i> <br /><br />I remember hearing a story in my childhood (300 years ago) of heavy freight pulled by steam engine on the prairies coming into town downhill very fast and locking the brakes after hitting a farm truck and skidding a considerable distance down the track with ALL the wheels locked, after the train stopped it was unable to move again as all the wheels had huge flat spots and the train couldn't regain any traction. Can there be any truth to this or is this an urban legend ? ? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Must be an urban legend. I don't think there were towns with freight service out on the prairies 300 years ago, let alone train tracks running between them.
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