If so … You’ll be glad tp know it is prototypical. [(-D]
I used to do it on purpose with an AHM/Pocher model of the Lincoln Funeral Car. It had a pairof trucks with a span bolster at each end (4 truucks total) and if there was a parallel siding I could run one pair on the maina nd the other pair on the siding and run the car sideways until the gap got too wide.
–Randy
They did that in Chicago a couple of years ago. The CTA was NOT impressed.
ROAR
We tried it with the Bachman Schnabel Car and it does work, but from what I understand when they unload the the Schnabel car they do that to get the tranformer or load over a truck for the the final movement.
Rick J[2c]
I had it happen on my free-mo module a couple years ago at the WGH show we set up at. A young kid hit a toggle switch on my double crossover and the commuter train I was running at track speed did that but eventually derailed from the speed.
I had that happen with a Tyco flatcar abck in the 70’s. It worked great as long as the tracks were side by side but when the side track peeled away, oh boy. Plus the little guy standing at the switch stand didn’t much like it either.
Hey
Wish i had a picture still. This happened in a sidding at Leeds (uk) with CL158 DMU. Points (switch) hadn’t been pulled full over. Happy to see it’s not just UK doing it [:)]
chris
Yes. [banghead]
[:-^]
Conductor shouts out,
" There will be no extra charge today for everyone on the left side having a front seat."
Johnboy out…
Where’s Waldo and Ulrich ???
Yup. Seems to work better with Rivarossi passenger cars than it does Walthers, though, LOL!
Tom
Too funny. I used to do it intentionally with my n-scale passenger trains. I had a double track main line and would flip the crossover under the car. Sometimes I would see how many zig-zags I could put into one train and still get it around the layout. Ah the things that interest a junior high mind.
Sometime way back TRAINS had an article on super trains Hitler wanted to build. A couple of months later some guy built and operated some cars that had cars two tracks wide pulled by an ATSFF unit off to one side. Apperently it was quite possible to run.
Yes this happens to me on my layout. When the car sits over a switch and I shut the layout down, forget about it and flip the switch the wrong way.
Or sometimes I run through a switch when it’s reversed, and only the front wheels make it, but the rear wheels don’t.
And now you know what happens when you stop and back up with the points of a spring switch halfway between the car’s trucks…
(An experience which I try to avoid, thank you)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with spring switches.)
did it once in real life with a long cut of empty ttx flats. all was well until we hit the TRRA interlocking and tore up about $500.000 worth of pot signals and switch machines. deserved the discipline, 5 days on paper.
charlie
THAT has happened more times than I care to account for!
They DO say “there is a prototype for everything”!!!
[8-|]
You guys are such amateurs.
Here on the New Haven, we afford our passengers the convenience of being able to board directly from the waiting room:
Surprisingly, no one was killed…
Yes, its called “picking the switch” when the points are either malfunctioning or in the halfway open position and the wheels “pick” the diverging route on the one truck (usually the trailing one) while the leading truck stays on the “straight” route. I don’t have the picture, but I saw fairly recently where a Union Pacific locomotive did such a thing.
Here is another train that “Picked the switch”
Just the trailing bogie derailed but a lot of rail level stuff was damaged.
My old Triang OO Gauge bogie well wagon could pick the switch and run on 2 different parallel tracks. Provided there were no posts in the way it could get back on one track if it was a double ended track.
Video of a picked switch in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEkZPZpeaQM&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL8D033790501D2B03