We used to live a couple miles from a big lake and on the other side of it ran a railroad track. I was very small, but remember the time I heard the train and kept watching for it to come around the curve in the road that ran in front of our house.
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that santa came to your house at a different time depending on where you live.
— santa 1:00 am - I thought the underground railroad was actually a subway.— Greg
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- that the word "couple" as in "a couple of items" was synonymous with "several", rather than "just two".— Blair A. Petterson
- I used to think that we were breaking a law every time my mom passed a "Do Not Pass" sign on the road. — Kyra