10-16-2016, 09:23 AM
Nothing to do with superstitions, but I recall watching a documentary on TVO (the Ontario public television station) which dealt with people who hitch rides on long distance freight trains....current-day hoboes.
One segment showed 2 or 3 of them (and there was, of course, also a cameraman present) "in the blind" on the short frame area of a covered hopper, under the end slope sheet. One, a young woman, heeding the call of nature, simply dropped her jeans, hung her bum out over the sidesill and let 'er go!
I'd estimate the train's speed to be somewhere around 40mph, and this occurred out in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere. These people (trespassers) were travelling cross-country, not simply on a short but dangerous joy ride.
Wayne
One segment showed 2 or 3 of them (and there was, of course, also a cameraman present) "in the blind" on the short frame area of a covered hopper, under the end slope sheet. One, a young woman, heeding the call of nature, simply dropped her jeans, hung her bum out over the sidesill and let 'er go!
I'd estimate the train's speed to be somewhere around 40mph, and this occurred out in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere. These people (trespassers) were travelling cross-country, not simply on a short but dangerous joy ride.
Wayne