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I never knew the grease trick, but someone who looks a lot like me, might have done that a lot as a kid growing up... Didn't use the tape either, just put them on the shiney spots in tracks and over a couple of days of replacing them a couple would get flattened. I'm sure if I were to metal detect that area, I'd find a bunch of 1970's and 80's pennies, and probably some from previous generations of kids who did it.
Tape seems like such easy way of doing it. I remember one kid tried it with nickels, but lost the nickels so no one ever went that rich again.
Hong Kong, but from Indiana/Florida
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My friends and I tried it a few times when we were kids with pennies, quarters, dimes and nickles (never with half dollars, silver dollars or Susan B Anthony's), even combinations sitting side by side on the tracks ( which looked wierd). There was this old railroad crossing bridge going over the Chattahoochee River connecting Columbus Georgia with Phenix City Alabama and on the Columbus side at the start of the bridge you could actually lean against the rails as the trains go by (back against the rails) and the train would only be a foot from you as it went by. We did that once and I swore to never even consider doing that again, bright ideas from the youthful mind 🙂.🐜 🎤 SW Georgia
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We did that a couple times back then, we were po though. Anyway we got to looking for sulfur chunks, and coal. We’d melt the smaller chunks of sulfur , that fascinated all us guys. I hate that they don’t have a caboose anymore, that was the most important car to me....I even remember seeing hobo’s , always wished I had one of their modified nickels ...Lubbock County Tx
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