Train flattens pennies

The kids had heard me tell stories of squashing pennies when I was younger. Now that we have trains in our back yard they wanted to try it as well. Juli's early attempts were thwarted by the shaking of the train knocking the coins off the track. She came up with and brilliant idea to use silly string to stick the penny to the track. That worked well but then she got the idea to use laffy Taffy or scotch tape. The tape and the taffy work very well. But on rainy mornings the taffy works best. This picture from the internet shows the results of a couple of pennys that were flattened or as they now say elongated by the commuter train that Jean rides to work.