We could hear a train loud and clear (a couple miles away) at my aunt's house and I would stand along the back fence and look both ways across it to see where the train would come steaming through the yard.
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 - I used to think Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima were a married couple. — l stu electtirc boogaloo
- I used to say " The ghost is clear!" Instead of "The coast is clear"— Jake
- I believed until near adulthood that when I was 6 or 7 I had actually flown for several feet in my back yard. — Jane S Poole
- I used to think that adam and the ants' stand and deliver was 'stand in your liver'.....— wook