03-18-2011, 10:37 PM
The Philadelphia & Western High Speed Trolley Line (not actually trolleys ... third rail) ran near my house on the way from Norristown to 69th St., Philadelphia. As a fifth or sixth grader, my friends used to tape an M80 on the rail where those "Bullet Cars" would come ripping around this super super-elevated curve at about 70 - 75 mph and then hide in the bushes up the far hillside across the tracks.
Yeah ... we were terrible kids! That's what being friends with a bunch of priviledged kids will do to you!
But the panic stop was atonishing the first time I saw it ... that time when, not knowing what was going on, having only moved there the day before, and my new friend from across the street who had grown up there had said, "Hey! Watch this!"
Yeah ... we were terrible kids! That's what being friends with a bunch of priviledged kids will do to you!
But the panic stop was atonishing the first time I saw it ... that time when, not knowing what was going on, having only moved there the day before, and my new friend from across the street who had grown up there had said, "Hey! Watch this!"
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln