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Let me relay a story my grandfather re-lived in his mind almost everyday of his life. <br /> <br /> My grandfather grew up in a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. In the winter time my grandfather and his freinds used to jump from large drifts of snow onto the tops or sides of moving freight cars for fun. At the tender age of 10 years old my grandfather witnessed one of the most gruesome scences you could imagine. One day while having their fun, one of his freinds paid the ultimate price. While trying to jump onto the side of a box car, his freind missed the handrail and fell in between the two cars, was run over and killed. My grandfather and the two other boys jumped down to find their freind laying between the tracks dead. <br /> And that was the clean version. I would have to say on that day my respect for a train was born. So, in the shadow of this very true story, I would hope you can now answer your own question.
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