I was having a grand old time today,watching trains go round my n scale layout waithout a single derailment or stall, and casually watched a small plymouth with a small train of boxcars disappear into a tunnel. as i listened to the train getting louder as it came out the other end, I noticed the strangest thing…a small white moth emerged from the tunnel, fluttering just ahead of the plymouth! but as the train came out of the tunnel, it sped up (there is a slope) and the poor moth was hit,fell onto the tracks, and DERAILED the train, causing it to roll down a hill and into my lake, which had just been poured with woodland scenics water stuff, and wasnt dry.Disaster!
has something like this ever happened to anyone else? E.g an ant or moth or any other critter causing trouble with the trains?
p.s. the moth was given a nice respectable funeral, and promptly fed to my pet fish.
Had a spider get run over my one of my trains once and seriously gummed up all the gears. Had to take the entire drive train apart and clean it out. What a mess. Still havn’t got that engine to run quite right.
James
LOL. Sorry, but could not help but laugh…see last night the people of my railroad town went screaming into their houses when a GIANT spider attacked the city, crawling on trees, etc. Luckily, the " Hand of God" struck it down with minimal damage (besides the SPLATTER on the background). RNN (Railroad News Network) reports one individual was bitten just outside his house and remains “frozen” there. Some observers report he may have lost bowel or bladder function, but cannot tell for sure (maybe it is just dirt or splatter on him)…
Hehehhe. Gotta love the minature world.
Brian
Had my HO UP 844 hit a ladybug one time on the floor of my basement. The little guy fared ok until he got crushed by the driver’s. His death resulted in me cleaning off 844 wheels and my track of bug juice, and disposing of his corpse by tossing it out the front door. (I’m sure I made some bird happy)
Have a really small spider living on the layout. In HO he would be the size of a large desert spider of some sort. So the spider is in scale so he can live on the layout. Did have to stop the switcher for a minute while the little spider crossed over the rails.
My board is in the garage and on nices nights I like to run the rails with the garage door up. Had a June bug fly in, and June bugs don’t fly well! Sucker would up on it’s back on a rail and SPD 40 was hauling toward it.
SPD 1, June Bug 0[:(] No derail put bug was cut in half! Found the half under the engine a few weeks later on the other end of the board.
Who need’s raid when you have a SPD.
Cuda Ken
haha! thats cool. Pity my layout is in n scale, i would love to have some kind of critter living in the model town ( maybe I could get a tiny little dead guy to live in my cemetary, just like in the movie beetlejuice!)
I have just cleaned the model water stuff of the plymouth, given it a new coat of paint, and given it a little nameplate: ‘plymoth’
Boy did this bring back unpleasant memories! When I was a boy we had lots of crickets and spiders down in the basement. More than once I ran across what appeared to be a tarantula while working under the train tables. Smacked my head on the framework a few times trying to get away from them. As for the crickets, their incessant chirping would really "bug"me [:)] . Sometimes one would be hopping around on the layout. Despite their speed I managed to run down at least one with a locomotive. Gross!!