Comments on: Coal Train Penny https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/12/coal-train-penny.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coal-train-penny Model railroads and model trains Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:03:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John Mc Cabe https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/12/coal-train-penny.html#comment-3242 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:03:52 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=2453#comment-3242 Chip, as a kid back in the mid-1960’s, a few friends and myself used to walk the few blocks from our houses in Wayne, New Jersey, and put coins on the Erie Lackawanna (ex-Erie) track. There was an iron bridge that crossed the Passaic River that separated Wayne from the next town, Pequannock. We used to put coins on the track, then hide underneath the bridge until the train passed before we picked up the crushed coins. They were everywhere.

A few days before I moved to Delaware two years ago, I took a ride to the bridge (there’s a road and factories there now). I knew that the track had been closed down years ago, there’s all grass and weeds over it, but the bridge too had fallen into bad disrepair from not being used, and the ends were blocked off. That’s called Progress… I think.

Chip,thanks for the great, great memories and for knowing that we weren’t the only “crazy” kids who put coins on the tracks. We never got a train ride though!

John

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