I was out in my train room earlier today running my trains and everything was going fine until I walked into the next room to get a tool, and as I reentered the train room heard that all too familiar sound of cars derailing and crashing. This is not the first time this has happened. It’s as if the train knows I’m no longer in the room and it derails just to spite me…
A friend of mine tells me it has to do with one of Murphy’s laws.
Does this ever happen to any of you folks ?.
trainluver1
no
My trains chew up the furniture if I ignore them or am away too long.
Nope. My derailments tend to happen right infront of me. Like I’m looking at a train too hard and force it off the rails. I rarely leave trains running unattended though.
My son gets bored if a train derails. Plus he causes them. Last night he was running a train at the club and flipped the directions witch back and forth about 5 times and the train took off full speed and would not respond to the throttle. Running sky hook saved that but by the time I got control of the train, he was gone causing trouble somewhere else.
Derails happen anywhere my son is.
My derailments only happen when guest is about…[}:)][:0][B)]
Never get ahead of yourself when you’re DS’ing(dispatching)its bound to bite you in the end…[:0][}:)][8][B)][:(]
My derailments just…happen. It’s a quantum physics thing.
Although, one time I left my steamers too long one day and one of them (casts a baleful eye over to the LL 0-6-0) left a pile of cinders right in the middle bay of the roundhouse.
Any casualties, trainluver?
The Force is strong in this one!
[:D][:D]
Derailments only result when I put force on my train. Otherwise, it never occurs.
what derailment…?
(quickly 5 fingers it back on)
For some reason, my derailments usually happen when a train runs through a switch that "somebody[:-^]"left thrown in the wrong direction[B)].
Derailments ONLY happen when you invite someone over to see how “great” your layout is. The day before you can run every loco, every car, any size train, any speed and nothing, I say, nothing will derail. When the guest gets there, no loco, no car, nor any train will be able to move more than 3 feet before a derailment happens. It is caused by a relative of the gremlins that get into sound cables and tangle them all up between gigs! LOL
It’s the little people.
REX
Only a yard limit sign Mr. selector, only a yard limit sign…
trainluver1
Ain’t it the truth Mr. howmus…
trainluver1
She must have cast a spell that derailed the train as revenge for being flipped.
All the time. Plus, my power fails when guests are over, and with guests that have been there before, trains derail and the scenery self destructs.
Matthew
(using the voice of the great Cliff Clavin)
“Its a well known fact that the likelihood of a model train derailment is increased as soon as the modeler leaves the room. The severity of the crash is directly linked to the distance that the modeler has to travel to shut everything off. Beer Normie?”
Regards,
Burlington John
I learned a long time ago to stop the trains before leaving the building…a couple of steps to the power pack or the hand held will save lots of grief later…that’s one thing that’s a sure bet…the trains are sooner or later going to derail and as howmus said…usually when the guests arrive…chuck
Murphy is one of the wee folk…gnomes, gremlins, little people that plague RR’s big and small.Your’e not the exception laddy.