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Subject: Re: [OM] Hazards of short lenses, was Now, who will buy from omScales
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:09:28 -0700
The effect is much stronger when the moving train is in close proximity to another train, wall, etc. than out in the open.

Moose

James N. McBride wrote:

Standing next to a fast train can be very dangerous as they can create a
suction effect that will pull you in. A conductor mistakenly put my
grandparents off on the wrong side of a train just as a streamliner passed.
He grabbed the stationary train and his wife and it took all his strength to
hold her. The railroad awarded them free travel on their trains for the rest
of their lives. They never got on another train, free or not.




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