I know this is kind of “morbid”, but has anyone ever modeled a train wreck in their lay-out? I was thinking about trying one out on my new layout, just as a ‘conversation piece’ so to speak. Since I am currently modeling the line that ran thru my town, I was planning to model my wreck after an actual call I was on on a section of that line when I was still on the job as a firefighter. Here is a pic of what I hope the scene will look like:
I tried modeling a train wreck with some old freight cars. But it really took away the 'beautiful '50’s scence. Don’t you think?
i plan to park some wrecked diesels and maybe a box car or two around my roundhouse/yards, maybe have a wrecked car being hauled on a flat car, but don’t plan on having a actual wreck scene
I have had actual wrecks on my layout due to derailments and objects
that roll across the track inadvertantly on occasion. When this has happened,
I roll out the rescue teams and take photos to study for later use. It has had
some great realistic disasters. Fortunately , I have not lost any rolling stock.
I have had a few derailments. One was an F7 that hit a piece of ballast that was tight causing the engine to come off on a turn on the upper lever grade and it rolled over onto a passing freight on the lower mainline. I just happened to be looking at them as they were both in the area close to the controls. It looked kinda neat like slow motion. However I didn’t let it for show. I tashed to upright them. Oh yeah the freight cars at that point were coal hoppers loaded. What a fine mess to clean up.
I have had a few derailments. One was an F7 that hit a piece of ballast that was tight causing the engine to come off on a turn on the upper level grade and it rolled over onto a passing freight on the lower mainline. I just happened to be looking at them as they were both in the area close to the controls. It looked kinda neat like slow motion. However I didn’t let it for show. I dashed to upright them. Oh yeah the freight cars at that point were coal hoppers loaded. What a fine mess to clean up.
I’m thinking of modeling a wrecked boxcar at the bottom of one of my bridges on Yuba Pass. I used to take the COAST STARLIGHT north to Portland for a number of years over the Christmas holidays, and I always noticed a smashed-up boxcar at the bottom of the gorge near Cascade Summit, below one of the trestles. It always fascinated me, and I might put something like that in, when I get the scenery tweaked.
Tom
ATTENTION:
On Saturday October 30, 2004 at 11:00am, a Union Pacific West-bound freight carrying twelve empty gondola cars derailed across the tracks from the Union Pacific Yard. It delayed an Amtrak Southwest Chief. The cause was due to a switch set the wrong direction. No-one was injured, but it will take approximately one-week to remove the gondolas.
That’s what I do when a derailment happens.
We have a couple of really old, broken up wooden boxcars that look like they have fallen off a high trestle on the Cochise & Western Model Railroad Club’s layout. One member has a major train wreck with smashed up and burned locomotives and cars, heavy cranes, a crash cleanup train, ambulances, fire trucks, etc. that he puts on the layout just for open houses.
I plan on having a wreck on my new layout. I plan to base mine on this http://www.railpage.com.au/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=album72&id=2848_Mingela_22_11_99&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php
There is a drivers rumour about, that all 28’s ending in ‘8’ (08,18,28,38 & 48 have got some sort of hoodoo on them…
2808 was the first 2800 to go on it’s side, 2828 is alleged to have a few level crossing fatalities under it’s belt, and now this about 2848.
Speaking of train wrecks…
CSX had a ‘head-on’ between 2 of it’s freight runs in Little Falls NY at about 5:30am, 30 Oct 04.
No injuries reported…initial reports are something malfunctioned.
I want to have a wrecked engine sitting in the yard.
My original HO layout was one big train wreck. It would be cool to model one if its done tastefully.