I'd prefer not to think about the consequences. But I recall hearing a news report when I was a kid where some lunatic placed a horseshoe on a track and derailed a goods train (fortunately no one was hurt). Apparently, this prank was the stupid and unthoughtful escalation of the common but dangerous practice of flattening copper pennies (dangerous to the placer of the penny—not the train).
Now that you've forced me to think about it, if it fell onto the tracks at the point where the train exits the tunnel then the train is still going at considerable speed. If at that point it broke rather than slid (caused, say, by a protruding part getting caught/jammed between a tie and the ground) then the scenario could end up being very nasty.