Train Layout Hides Kidnapping Victim

Classic Toy Trains Forum
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Had occasion to watch the second season of the CBS series “Medium”, now out on DVD.

The show is about a woman who sees events of the past in dreams and works for a District Attorney in pointing police in the right direction on unsolved crimes.

In this particular episode she dreams her car has broken down on a rural road and a plane crashes near her. After several nights of the same dream, she visits the scene and makes her way to a barn where an O-Gauge train layout is set up. If I remember correctly, the train highlighted is a Santa Fe F3. On the layout is a crashed plane, and a barn which is identical to the one she is in. Beneath the train layout is a trap door where a kidnapping victim is being hidden, who she finds when the layout starts shaking - for some unidentified reason.

Not for nothing, just some exposure of O-Gauge trains in the mainstream media.

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I thought it was a Santa Fe PA: and that this looked more HO. Nice sky backdrop though. Overall, a nice conceit. Of course the owner of the layout is the perpertrator - another one of the model railroading loonies. I’ve watched this show only a few times and twice saw this episode…

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It never dawned on me that it could be HO. Coulda sworn I saw a third rail in there, plus I would think that in order to get the idea fully understodd, they would use larger trains. Guess I have to revisit this one.

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Frank,

The trapdoor under the layout is where Bob Grubba is being held.[:D]

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I have quite a long list of others I wouldn’t mind seeing in there. [:D]

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