I used to think that train drivers actually steered, and that it was incredibly hard to keep the wheels of the train exactly on top of those narrow tracks.
I was crazy about trains, but this huge responsability made me not want to be a train driver.
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- For some reason, I used to believe that women only got raped on train tracks.
— Jessica Tinch - My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.— Roger
- I used to believe that there were lots of hamsters in the wheels of the car, and that's what made it go.— Jade
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- I use to beleive that Motorways had special tarmac on the road that made the wheels go faster— Nada