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A couple of great pictures on Shorpy today. Wreck of the Crescent Limited. August, 1933
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Charlie, didn't you know that trying to get a penny flattened by a train would cause this? For shame !!
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I wish I had a dollar for all the pennies I flattened for the little ones. Never derailed but we did warn them to stay away, never know if you caught one just right it might fly like a tiddly wink .
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Charlie B Wrote:I wish I had a dollar for all the pennies I flattened for the little ones. Never derailed but we did warn them to stay away, never know if you caught one just right it might fly like a tiddly wink .
Charlie
They can sure fly with some force if caught just right. I used to have a friend in Jasper Texas who could hold a penny between two fingers and with a snap of his fingers make it fly with enough force to put a ding in a car door. No kidding. I watched him do it several times.
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Great pictures of very sad events!
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Indeed, another very impressive pair of photos.
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While searching for a picture of the Metropolitan building in downtown Mpls a few years back found not only that but within the early 1900s picture on the opposite side of the street was a vacant lot that would later hold the western union office where I would be given my first ever real job in 1958 I even reconized the alley that would run between it and the future unemployment office on the opposite side.in the picture occupied by a old hotel or flophouse......what a hoot!!
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Those are powerful images.
