OK, scale 81 ft to be sure. She nosed over on my worst turn as she hit a switch on a downhill grade. Over she went. Hit square on the cow catcher. Only visable damage was the coupler on the rear snapped off of the chassis. I will have to fab up an aluminum fix. but, she's still running - I was amazed (after I woke up from the faint) - Shu
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Pics of the crime scene and damage, or it didn't happen. : Þ ~~~~~~~~~~
GearDrivenSteam Pics of the crime scene and damage, or it didn't happen. : Þ ~~~~~~~~~~
There is a video on YouTube where this guy drove his train into a small creek. Dried it off and drove it again. Our hobby has some substantual equipment, strong enough to survive many disasters.
Tom Trigg
I was truly impressed that it could take that kind of a fall and not only survive, but only suffer a 'compressed' cow catcher which returned to normal position with a slight nudge and a broken coupler. I forgot to mention that this is my Bachmann 'Annie'. With the amount of money some of you have tied up in your equipment, I can't imagine what it would be like watching the engine worth 10 times the bachmann nose over the retaining wall and plow nose first 4 feet below. I will post a picture of the 'scene' and damage as soon as I get off duty tomorrow. Shu
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