This isn’t mine. I found this diorama on the web a few years ago.
Features a GE U-Boat that “Literally” became a marine “U-Boat!” [:P]
In the January 2001 issue of RMC, there’s a feature on a diorama, built by Doug Hole, showing a mountainside derailment. It’s the most well-done modelled wreck scene that I’ve seen: besides a wreck crew and equipment on-site, there’s ripped up track, crumpled freight cars and locos, and spilled lading (grain and lumber). According to the article, it took second place at an NMRA convention in 1996, and was later moved to the NMRA headquarters, in Chattanooga, for display.
Wayne
Trainland, USA is a Lionel display located just east of Des Moines, IA. It’s open to the public from Memorial Day to Labor Day. One of the scenes in the Midwestern segment has a couple of freight cars that have plunged into the river and are in the process of being extracted by a work crew with a railroad crane.
I have also seen similar wreck scenes on travelling club layouts at different trainshows. Of course one of the issues with arranging such a scene is that if it is to be permanent, it has to be located on a branchline, a spur, or other unused section of track.
There’s one club which I have visited which has an old wooden boxcar under some bridges. the club models somewhere from the 80’s to modern day, so that boxcar has been there for a while. On my layout I have an area where a wreck occured a long time ago; all the freightcars are gone, but there’s still some old ladders, bits of metal, and a broken truck. (the freightcar wheelset type, not the road vehicle)
Had one wreck on my old layout that I exaggerated for a couple pictures. I even included a couple wrecked vehicles in the Burger King parking lot that were smashed.
Of course, my old layout had occasional crossing accidents.
And the occasional pileup.
Kevin
That looks so real!
[:O] That is lot of woodland scenics water or Epoxy!
do landlocked ie stuck in an abandoned siding count? If so i have included an old mdc 36’ boxcar sitting on a track in back of an abandoned biulding.
from my airfield, across the way, not a train wreck, but a speeding corvette rear-ended a semi slowing for a turn. fortunatly the 'vette driver ducked, and survived.A front end loader was comandeered from a near by construction site to lift the truck so the driver could be airlifted:
Not on mine per say, but a club President did manage to tip a PRR Duplex on it’s side while it was running, bringing downa train next to it and the one behind. . But they didn;t let me get the breakdown trian out before they picked it up. And whoever parked the train did so in a bad spot.
New Haven,
I hear ya! That is a lot of water.
Any of you guys thinking about creating a similar scene? Floods are an unfortunate and very common problems here in the U.S; especially in areas near the Mississippi Delta.
Don’t forget that a “major” wreck might be as simple as a boxcar that derailed and ripped out a switch and a 100’ section of track along the way until the crew noticed.
I had a car derail on me a few weeks ago… Picked the points of a switch, went over the frog, and ripped out three 40’ sections of rail.
Closed off access to two fuel dealers as well as a feed mill and put the passing track out of service. One switch, three customers.
We had prototypical Guilford operations on the club last december… Dick was running his pair of Canadian Widecabs. I rolled around the curve to see his train stopped so I stopped my train, and walked ahead. What I saw was pretty amazing… all by itself, the lead widecab managed to flop onto its side…