And the third and the fourth…
What do you expect from Crashed Smashed and eXploded.
Bad enough it’s in the pit, but how fast was it going?![:O] The usual “crawl” speed used to approach the turntable would not have put half of the engine down there!![:I][:D]
Well, there’s a hmm. How did my quote/reply get mixed in with Smokes[%-)]? Sorry, don’t know how that happened[oops].
I hope to high heaven that there WASN"T a third or fourth, hopefully at some point someone is going to remember that there is a hole in the ground there if that “little bridge thingy” isn’t there.
Hummm, anyone notice a recurring theme here with engines in pits?[:-^]
Well it is CSX!
Hummm…CSX getting run into the pits…there’s a joke there somewhere[:-^]
The sad thing is, this isn’t the first (or second) time this has happened.
OOPS! It happened again!
-Brandon
They need to put an isolated section of track right before the turntable that they can cut the electricity to when the turntable isn’t aligned properly…[:o)]
I think they need to put those beeper things like they put on the back of cars, to tell them if something is behind them. Or in this case a turntable.
You know, that doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all! However, I don’t think the Crashed, Smashed and eXploded railroad will pick up on it until a few more engines “take the plunge” and cost CSX a few more hundred thousand dollars in repairs.
“Oh lord, not again!” -In the words of the boss.
-Brandon
…kinda reminds me of some show/performance I was watching… “when you fall down, be careful…” (speaker stamps on the ground once or twice) “… 'cause this is concrete… and it’s really expensive to replace”
Hey, I just noticed this. Is the loco kinda at the left/middle(SD-40 or 40-2), Is that the loco in the pit from the new one you posted?[:P]
Nah, the CSX “Bright Future” unit in the pit in all the pictures is CSX SD70MAC #732. Same derailment, different angles. (Except of course the beautiful SD80MAC in the pic above, too bad they tore that one up.)
Not again!
wait, all those tracks have the blue safety flag/marker…thing… on them. So the engineer/hostler had to RUN OVER a blue sign in order to fall into the pit!? He’s in even more trouble now…
I am not sure this qualifies as the stupidest thing, but when my daughter was about 10 years old, And I was first letting her run the trains without me paying to much attention she had a finely detailed P2K C&O caboose, a P2K Geep and a scratchbuilt boxcar she was spotting on a siding that was dead end with a four foot sheer clif to the floor about two inches past the bumper. The bumper that was on It had a finish nail sticking up in the middle of it to hit the axels just in case. Well for some reason she got the faster and slower confused on the handheald throttle and all three dropped to the cement floor from my rather high layout. They made it past the bumper, past the finish nail and at full throttle I expect they would. I bit my tounge, mustered up all my fatherly abilities and told her not to worrry. I built them, I can fix them. We got her another train to operate and life went on. They all still are broken, but they do bring back great memories. Not memories of crashed trains, but a wonderful father-daughter relationship.
Now as a 26 year old woman she till sometimes askes me how I didn’t yell at her as she now understands how much effort I put into detailing and building equipment. I am sure she thinks much more of me for not yelling, but grinning and bearing it.
Paul
Dayton and Mad River RR
Finish some track laying or “tuning”. Time to try the new track out and see how it purrs under my Climax. Turn the old powerpack on…and nothing…Oh look! A short indication on the power pack.
Hmmmmm, wonder which tool I left on the track this time? How many hours will it take me to find it? Have you ever noticed the the invisible color even an NMRA gauge turns when it’s part of a short circuit?
there’s always enough time to do it twice, but never enough time to do it right the first time