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Can a penny or nickel offrail a train?

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Can a penny or nickel offrail a train?

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  1. not a silly q as it sounds. if you know a program called myth busters, they tried, didn't work.


  2. no,.............trains are not that fragile...................

    but with other factors present if you then add a coin on the tracks it might appear to be caused by a simple coin,...

    remember they've done a pretty good job on other trains,

    livestock,cars,18wheelers,etc and haven't come off,..............................then again anything pushed to extremes '

    ........a straw or a penny can break it's back

    (a 300mph bullet train might apply)

  3. Just so you know, the term is "derail" not "offrail."

    And, no, it won't happen. But, here's a cool thing to do: Lay 5 or 10 coins on the rail, in a line, each one slightly overlapping the next one. When the train flattens them, they'll be welded together into a kind of long strand or chain. Sometimes you can bend them into a bracelet!

  4. don't think they would cause a train to come off but I've been told that coins have been known to shoot out when the wheel hits them! ... so you might want to be careful there. although I never seen it actually happen .. doesn't mean it couldn't babe.

  5. noo iv but quarters on train tracks an waited for the train to go by to get it after an the train never came off the tracks

  6. I've never heard of this happening before.

  7. no, it will just flatten the penny or nickel

  8. Yes!!! The train tires will pop!!!

  9. No they can't.. But it's fun to put a penny on the rail to see the effects on the penny

  10. "mythbusters"  tried this one, and no nothing happened, except for a very bent penny.....

  11. I was on the Train years back on my way to the City (NYC) and it stopped suddenly. It seemed that some stupid kid put a shopping cart on the tracks and our train hit it. Nothing happened. I don't think a penny will do much damage to a train. The train will damage the penny though.

  12. Yes, if it's a Lionel or Thomas the train.

  13. Why does everybody thinks she means putting a coin on the rail?

    Maybe she meant paying somebody to take a portion of the rail off?

    What a silly question! Kids have been doing this since the trains have been invented. BUT do not do it yourself! Being as smart as you are, you'll keep your hand on the coin to prevent it from falling off...

    DO NOT DO IT.

  14. nickle have fun lol dont be stupid tho

  15. no many people put coins on railroads so it makes it an unfair coin.

  16. no not in a million years

  17. No , I use to do that when I was young we use to walk to store and cross the tracks when a train was coming we would put any change we had on tracks and watch them get flatten , and the train kept on going, hope this helps.

  18. It is very unlikely.  The wheel would have to be pushed up or aside enough for its flange to get on top of the rail.  This is most likely to happen on rails that are not precisely aligned and supported.  The thickness of a coin can't raise or push a wheel that far.  A very rare circumstance might derail a railroad wheel if the rail has been poorly maintained and something additional interferes with the wheel.  Coins may not be hard enough, also, to actually interefere.

  19. No they cannot offrail a train they can just be flattened by the train.
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