How many of you out there take pictures of your wrecks? If so please post them, it would be neat to see. This wreck is not staged. How ever the 2 figures were added after the dust settled.
It was just one of those days when the Turtle Creek yard crew… welp pictures paint a thousand words so:
Do you think its tired and needs a nap?
The railroad superintendent ( shown in the foreground ), his body language prêt much says it all… The wheels actually jammed in the switch and held the steamer like this. You know I look at this photo and I can just see an old timer bent over like that and I can see him pulling his hat off his head and slapping his leg while saying: “ Well now then there …. “ . Note the fireman just standing there with the shovel full of coal. Wonder what he is thinking…
This shot needs little explanation. I can here that old timer saying: “ Put your back into it there Joe…” I cant help but wonder if his back will give out before the Crain gets here? Do you suppose we should tell Joe that the engineer is supposed to ride the train, not the train ride him?
It was later determined that the switch points where out of adjustment. The leading rail needed to be ground flat so the flange would not pick it and derail the 948. This was the first time the big 4-6-0 was in the yard. Usually the little old #5 a 2-6-0 yard goat works this yard and has had no trouble.
The best NOT staged wreck we have ever had was when a new bie was running a train and decided to stop the two SD45s on the MLS bridge to take photos and did not tell the container train engineer that he had stopped.
You have to understand, that with battery power even if its of the track , it still runs. This does not show the 6 cars that rolled down the bank.
The joke while back with this was. An all USAT train rear ended an all Aristo train but never moved the SD45s alt all.
If the AT&SF Evans car had not derailed the lead unit , it may have kept going.
Marty,
We’ve had some doozies out at Jens’s over the years. All on video, no still pics.[:(][:(]
One in particular I remember was several cars going off the high bridge and tumbling down the embankment about 8 feet. Another was a set of F units plowing into the rear of a train at full speed.
Phantom,
That’s not a wreck.[:D][:D] Just a little de-railment.[:D][:D]
Wait 'til some of your trains derail and hit the floor! Now that would be a wreck![:(][:(][:p][:p]
GOOD LORD, hit the floor…AAAAAAAA The layout is 5’ 7"" off the floor! OOOOOO NOW… well need a mop and bucket and maybe a spung to clean up whats left… GULP…
Near as I can tell from the photos, 'ol Joe is trying to get his union card from under the wreck so he can call in sick with a back injury and sue the RR and the manufacturer of the signaling system and switches. The super looks like he’s trying to find the end of the unemployment line.[(-D] I’ve had wrecks also, buy my fish pond pirates keep the complaints (and witnesses) to a bare minimum, they hate whiners. Never thought to take a photo…hmmmm…
My “Wreck” would have to be running my train and the caboose un cuppled, the train plowed into it at full speed. engine rolled of the track, Car went flipping off the table…
broke some details on the engine.
Smashed the roof off the cabose, and broke 2 sets of wheels.
We’ve had some doozies on the CCRy.
Climaxes feet up, spinning madly…Shay in a head-on,. down 48" to the rocks (not pretty), 4-4-0 rolled off a fill onto it’s back…
Some documented, some published.
The names have been changed to protect the guilty.
TOC
Gentlemen lets not forget my crash; didn’t even have trains running at the time. A couple of spans on my viaduct fell down during construction killing six small workers.
This has been reported itn the much respected newspaper “Two Tree Times”
So that’s why there are 6 graves under the tree in your photo!
And all this time I had thought that they must have died of sun-stroke in that hot weather you keep going on about. [:D][(-D]
