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What is the FUNNIEST thing you have EVER SEEN or DONE
involving ANY kind of trains???
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Get this…
On my last layout before I had moved, I had a lift bridge that I kept open MOST of the time. Well, one day, I had let it down and forgot to open the bolt ( which later discovery revealed it had rested on top of the tracks) leaving a 1 inch " ramp" at the joint. NOT CHECKING to see if all was in place for a train run, guess what ??? Yep, I ran an engine. A Model Power DDT Plymouth to be exact. To my surprise, the engine went “airborne” for about 3 inches and landed PERFECTLY back on the tracks and kept going ! [:0] !
When I built a bridge over a stair in Lego and I tried running an extra heavy Lego train…
You haven’t seen a trainwreck untill you have dropped a Lego train down one story (along with the bridge)
At the Atlas Nscale forum, someone had posted pictures of a plastic dinosaur attacking a CN grain train… It was pretty funny, but the pictures are gone now…
It wasn’t funny at the time but I had a railroad with a bridge made from a 2"x10" about 30" long and almost 6’ off the ground to walk into the railroad. One night in bed I heard this strange noise like a muffled crash followed by a scurrying sound. Naturally my wife thought I was hearing things. When I went to the basment the cat was on the bridge swatting hopper cars from a train I had left there on to the floor. The scurrying noise was the sound of parts going in all directions following the sudden stop into the graet abyss. Needless to say I never left another train there again. To tell you the truth I don’t think it is all that funny 25 years later but my wife does.
My wife’s grandfather (Arthur) grew up on a farm that was crossed by a main line.
Once he was towing a wagon load of manure and the wagon got hung up on the crossing. Sure enough along comes a train. He had to unhitch the tractor and drive it a safe distance away. The train hits the wagon, manure goes everywhere. After the train stopped the engineer got out and walked back to him. As he got closer Art could see the engineer doubled over laughing. When he reach Art he straightened up and said,
“Well young fella, I’ll bet you never saw manure spread that fast before!”
I was at a friend’s place when he held the last operating session before rebuiding most of the layout. He reached a decision late in the session to quit operating and commence an orgy of destruction since so many people were there to help tear the place down. Not everybody got the message immediately, including the “mole operator” who was still working the hidden staging yard and busily restaging trains when the mountain above him got slammed by a slegehammer and rained plaster chunks on his head. Speaking of which…
Also, my round-robin group built these shadow box modules (which the train show faithful always called the coffin modules) and set them up at shows for several years. One show this guy in the group ran his German prototype Das Rheingold passenger train but lost a car despite our efforts at maintaining security. We asked around the show but couldn’t find anyone who saw the perpetrator make off with it. The owner was exceptionally cranky about the incident. When we started taking down the modules after closing time, another group member was removing clamps holding his module to the next and the missing car fell out of the tunnel above him and slammed into his forehead. It had apparently derailed and conveniently fell off the track in the tunnel right into some wiring.
Hey, anybody ever seen AMERICA’S DUMBEST PEOPLE??
There was this video they ran about a train engineer hauling
piggy-back to somewhere. Any way, this engineer ignored a
order to avoid a low bridge ( the double stacks were too high )
and attempted to go under. OK, the locomotives made it fine. BUT…
the top containers on the first MANY cars were peeled open like
sardine cans. AND HE KEPT ON GOING, even after bystanders
tried to wave him to stop. What’s worse is that he then tried to BACK
UP to free the damaged equipment and containers.
He was later found to be DUI and arrested. Not really funny but true.
AND SAD.!!!
Warning not Train related
reminds me about the tugboat that goes under a bridge that’s too low.
Capsizes and is drawn under the bridge by the current.
It rights itself on the other side, with mostly minor damages.
I saw that too. It was a CN train and they blurred out the CN logos so you wouldn’t know what company it was. Never mind that the paint scheme would just give it away to anyone that would be concerned about what railroad it was anyway.
You forgot to mention the railfan who was also at trackside who observed all this. Unfortunately, a good portion of the flying manure headed his way. Thus, the birth of the expression, “The S***'s gonna hit the FAN!” [:0]
The Building our club layout is housed in is not the newest of construction…needless to say if your there by yourself…you can hear things scurrying around.
We had poured a river on a friday night work session…no one was planning on returning until monday evening.
When we returned on monday evening…there was a mouse…stuck in the Envirotex.
I’ve seen this - there’s a set of photos of it online somewhere, but I’ve forgotten the address sadly. Was pretty funny - especially the captions that had been added!
As I understand it, the tug didn’t intend to go under the bridge, it was caught by a strong current and dragged under!
The first serious model caboose my nephew ever saw was an ATSF wide vision that had “25” within its road number. He called it a two-five. So now when he sees any caboose, he refers to it as a “two-five”. Its pretty funny in person.
On a layout I saw at a train show he set up a pretty funny scene. There where two people looking over the edge of the layout with the police men there, and a guy holding somthing that said “The end is Near”
Well during the open house for the NMRA convention back in '92 when it Was in Columbus,Ohio I was DS’ing at the club when I accidentally threw a switch under a train with the expected results.
Then then was the time a fellow railfan kept backing up to get a good photo and tripped over a lady that was fully involved in reading a book…Needless to say both was embarrass.
Well, just the other day me and a friend of mine were standing on top of a small wooden bridge watching a southbound CSX intermodal go under. Needless to say, the doublestack train barely made the clearance. Anyway, the friend of mine (whose name I will not disclose [;)] ), being the teenager that he is, decided that it would be smart to drop a golf ball-sized rock onto the passing train. As soon as I said “No, don’t!” he let go. The rock hit the roof of a corrugated container and bounced back up toward us and hit him in the leg. While he was doubled over grasping his shin and cursing like a sailor, I managed to tell him through my own laughter “I told ya’ so!”
About 25 years ago, I was attending an open house at a prestigious club. They had just put a new hump yard into operation. They had not tested all the cars, and one of the members had placed an “antique” balsa/cardstock box car on the layout. The “retarders” for the hump were compressed air, and had not been “fine tuned” yet. When this car got to the retarders, a good blast sent the car back up the hump, clearing the switcher, and into the room partition just behind it.[angel] The poor guy who owned the car was beside himeself, and just about everyone else was hysterical!![:D]