My mom would tell me to stay off the railroad tracks because the trains were silent and super fast.
A childhood belief about trains

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that the "fast lane" actually had some sort of tracks on it that made you go faster.— erin
- I used to believe that the Super intendant was the Super Nintendo.— Lecia
- 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
- 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