Had a whole bunch of relatives from England in today and the kids were running trains and having a great time. My sister is in there waving her arms all over the place pretending she is the encyclopedia of model railroading and promptly causes this.[:(!]
Had a fifty car freight running along with a second train and the first time operators were doing a masterful job of keeping them apart.
This is the first time in ten years I have had to hit the red stop button and this is by far the worst accident I have ever had on the layout. Usually some idiot [:-^]forgets to flip a switch and a truck or two will remove themselves from the rails, but that’s it. OOOOHHHH!, the humanity.[(-D]
Recommendations of the “Transportation Safety Board” are, Never let your sister in the train room.[|(]
The fellows in that caboose (van) in the lower-right are sure thanking their lucky-stars. Be thankful, too, your Rapido Royal Hudson hasn’t arrived yet! Be sure to lock it up when company visits [:-^]
Good luck with the investigation and clean-up! Cheers - Ed
That must be clean burning-Anthracite in those hoppers - so clean it doesn’t even spill when the car tips!
I use “live” loads in my hoppers…
…and while I’ve had a couple derail, no roll-overs yet. A small amount of “coal” was spilled, but kids from a nearby neighbourhood made off with most of it. It’s the late '30s here, and most homes are still heated with coal.
About the only good part of this is that it didn’t happen at zero-dark-thirty, and the wreck master and crew didn’t have to drag themselves out of bed, go to the yard, get their stuff, and drive out to the wreck to put things right under flood lamps.
Good one selector. I guess that is a positive point.
You know we pay so much for locomotives and rolling stock these days. This hobby definitely is not cheap.
About the worst thing that can happen is when one of your locomotives finds the floor. Even if you’re lucky enough nothing is broken on the shell. You still wonder if the shock of the impact damaged anything internally that will surface later[:#]
Good looking wreckage! (even if there’s no such thing). Even though the sister wasn’t running the trains, there needs to be some sort of demerit action taken for indirectly causing such mayhem. Dan
I can’t be too hard on my sister as she is the biggest supporter of my hobby. I think the connection between trains and our childhood is as strong for her as it is me.
I currently have a $750.00 credit at PWRS largely because of her. She throws in a $100.00 each Christmas and $100.00 each birthday and $75.00 every time I drive her to or pick her up at the airport which is often.
She really is the best sister you could have. I did like the idea of the cheap stuff for when the relatives come over.[(-D]
The Royal Hudsons were the first thing that came to mind when the accident happened. Maybe it is a good thing I am still waiting for them. I wonder if Rapido has sister insurance. [(-D]
You know you’ll have to forgive me but I have to post this I just thought of it.[#offtopic] but maybe not necessarily, the post does relate to a train wreck and damaged Model Railroad stock.
Here’s one. Do any of you have some of the older locomotives that are made by a good manufacturer and are pretty good quality.
They run like champs maybe one of your favorite old ones. Then you go to put it away, the Damn jewel case is so stupid it’s not even funny. The tolerances are so tight you feel like you’re going to damage or break your locomotive trying to put it away.
Well I did. Its one thing when a locomotive hits the floor and brakes but when you’re putting it in the case that supposed to protect it and it breaks that’s a crying shame[:'(]
When I was in N scale back in the 1990s there was one particular model of Kato locomotive that fir so tight in the packaging that it would not go back into the foam insert without breaking it.
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