Werst train actiodents

[Locomotive681]

Model train wrecks tell.[;)]

[dwiemer]

Ran a 2020 at high speed.......she didn't make the turn and went right through the sheet rock wall. No damage to the engine, it landed in a pile of clothes in the laundry room. My backside when Dad found out, well that did sustain some damage.
Dennis

[csxt30]

When my son was little, he put all kinds of scrap stuff in an open gondola, which we still have, & it was always the car that would derail & all the junk would go everywhere !! It still seems to do that now & then !!
Thanks,

[1688torpedo]

Now we know how CSXJohn is able to handle derailments on the real railroads. He has real life experience with his son.[;)][:)] Who says toy trains cannot teach anything?[;)][:P][:o)] Take Care all.

[Anonymous]

My werst train actiodent happened when my dictionary fell onto my caboose!

[FJ and G]

One particularly nasty wreck I’ve had that I can recall is a few months back when I converted my trusty Williams SD-45 and U-Boats to Remote Control.

I dumped a boxcar and gondola filled with real steel scraps in a section of track short on ties. I understand that there was an unfortunate hobo in the boxcar at the time. I believe he survived the wreck but became mentally unbalanced and started collecting Lionel boxes.

A beagle was the only on-scene witness and she said it was ruff, ruff.

[cnw1995]

I'm just getting to know this new trackwork - some of it is wobbly enough if I run the trollies at speed, they'll fly off the track on a curve - rolling over and over like one of them Hollywood stunt driver crashes. The 248 was always stalling on on ancient switch so I swapped it out; an REA car on the GG1 consist was always derailng on another curve -swapped that out. Worst so far, the GG1 and three passenger cars sideswiping a freight waiting in the hole as it passed. I put the siding a bit too close to the main. Blew freight cars all over the place.

[Jumijo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dwiemer

Ran a 2020 at high speed.......she didn't make the turn and went right through the sheet rock wall. No damage to the engine, it landed in a pile of clothes in the laundry room. My backside when Dad found out, well that did sustain some damage.
Dennis

Right through a sheet rock wall?! That's impressive, Dennis!

[csxt30]

Jim: I think Dennis had the best wreck since the Adams family's controlled blow ups !![:D][:D]
Thanks,

[nitroboy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by joe0315

My werst train actiodent happened when my dictionary fell onto my caboose!

Classic[:D]

[1688torpedo]

I bet Joe's Caboose got a case of the smarts after a Dictionary fell on it.[;)][:D][:o)] Now that's what I call the "School of Hard Knocks"[;)][:)] Take Care.

[Anonymous]

It took more than a week to figure out how to post photos, but here goes. This is what happened to my MP-15 when I drove it off of the dining room table. Has since been repaired. (I'm glad it happened before K-Line went under!) This is the third wreck involving this loco. First time was a high speed test. I laid about twenty feet of track and threw the juice to it. It ran off the end of the track and hit the entertainment center. Resulted in a bent front railing. Second incident, too fast in turn, snapped off rear coupler assy. Third time shown here.

[dwiemer]

Jim and John, The my parents house was built in the mid 1800s, so the room in the basement was walled in with a thin sheet rock, I think they called it wallboard at the time. Anyway, I had the train going high speed down a 15 foot strait run and she just didn't make the curve. It was very exciting and disturbing at the same time.
Dennis

[twaldie]

I have found that the best way to launch a train is to leave your powermaster set in "COMMAND" mode, put a conventional engine on the track, and turn on the power supply. O Guage engines have incredible acceleration! (until the first curve)
Luckily, no damage has occured to date, mostly due to thick carpet.

Tim