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Derailing A Train

by Shawn @ 12:24 pm · filed under Weird Stuff

I've always heard idiotic people say if you put a penny on a train track, you could derail a train. Well, I proved them all wrong today. I taped $3 in quarters to a railroad track and waited for a train to come by today. And guess what? It flattened the money, but the train did not fall off the tracks.

The one thing I was worried about was someone seeing me doing "something" to the train tracks while I was down there taping quarters to it. Have them call the FBI and I get arrested as a terrorist or something. heh

You can find some pics here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=95&c=member&imageuser=1

17 Responses to “Derailing A Train”

  1. Bazkaz Says:
    July 25th, 2005 at 11:24 am

    Pennies are cool to do that with also… even better is when you stack a penny on a quarter or a nickle. You can make some pretty cool designs.

  2. Vicious Summer Says:
    August 4th, 2005 at 3:35 am

    What do you think the 1st thing Stefan said, when I told him you taped some quarters to the railroad tracks…”Don’t you know that that can derail a train?!?!?!”…haha

  3. crazyboy Says:
    November 11th, 2005 at 2:43 pm

    Hey shawn! try stacking them one upon each other.

  4. John Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 2:08 am

    Im from the uk and im currently studying fine art at college. Im working on thr utban enviroment, which includes graffiti and train tracks. So i had an idea, if the train could create graffiti ( ha sounds stupid i no , but dosent most art?). So my idea was to tape some arclic tubing too the track ( the tubing would be around 10cm by 5cm). But would the tubing derail a train?

    Please relpy with your thoughts cheers!
    John

  5. harry Says:
    October 6th, 2007 at 3:01 am

    haha! even i can try dat.
    may be 3$ coin gets long and convert into 6$

  6. someone you hate! Says:
    November 26th, 2007 at 9:42 pm

    you really can derail a train with putting money on it!!!

  7. david Says:
    January 2nd, 2008 at 4:14 pm

    that was dangerous

  8. asdfjkl Says:
    January 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm

    Anyone who thinks that a half ounce soft piece of copper will throw a 300 ton locomotive off the tracks should put themselves in front of the train to make a coming gene pool a little smarter.

  9. Ryusuke Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 7:59 pm

    Replace the tracks with pennies

  10. rohit Says:
    March 21st, 2008 at 12:54 am

    can u plz explain me the phenomenon of derailin a train.. or can sm1 plz tell me a good site

  11. asdflkjl Says:
    March 29th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    lol… I’m an engineer, a train can go over a bike without derailing, anyone who thinks a penny can derail a train is either a small child or just plain fucking stupid.

  12. Sam Says:
    November 7th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    You idiots….I clean up train wrecks for a living and in one instance a major derailment was caused by two stupid morons like yourselves who had stacked two quarters on top of each other on a rail…the weight of the locomotives on the quarters caused the rail to crack beneath them as the train was rounding a curve. 38 tanker cars full of ethanol derailed, ruptured, and burst into flames in a wooded area…imagine if that had happened in a residential neighborhood you stupid fools. Un-friggin-believable.

  13. tristan patterson Says:
    May 30th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    why would you say something like that? are you the person who proved everyone wrong? if so, that was cool.

  14. TrainFan Says:
    August 17th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    Sam, I don’t belive you even work around trains. and that CANNOT happen. it’s not just impossable because we say it. it is just physicaly impossable. It must have been another cuase wich had nothing to do with the money.

  15. crazy frasssy Says:
    September 13th, 2009 at 11:02 am

    i put a bike infront of a train yesterday and i think the bike got jammed int the wheel becasue it was carried away but the train definatly didnt derail. whats the biggest thing i can put on without needing to worry about derailing?

  16. so ne bu beech Says:
    September 18th, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    fuck dat

  17. cambo Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 4:25 am

    hey asdfjkl lol no kiddin my friend chucked a 2×4 off a train over pass and the train just clobbered it rox are fun too

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