Originally Posted by
sherbornpeddler
I used to see how far I could walk on a rail past that depot. I did put a penny on the track to flatten it but didn't find it later.
My friend and I used to ride to Mendon Center, then a tiny rural place in the corner of Monroe County, now a gentrified executive bedroom community.
We would put pennies (plural) on the Lehigh Valley tracks, and when we were feeling rich, nickels and dimes and even occasionally a quarter. Next day we'd come back and collect. Put one on, you'd never find it. Put a bunch on, and once you found one you found most of them.
We turned them into fishing lures and tried to sell them.
I guess our theory was Penny+Train+Hook+Swivel=profit. Maybe now with Etsy our plan might have worked? Maybe not. They were horrible fishing lures - never caught a single fish with one. But they looked cool.
Oh, the tracks are gone. They are now a rail trail.
-mr. bill