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I had a unique situation on my model RR the other day that brought to mind a question about how real railroads function. I was doing a pick-up of a Soo box car which I noticed was off-balance and leaning too much to one side for me to feel comfortable trying to get it to the yard (don't ask WHY it was on the layout like that in the first place). Soooo, doing what I figured a real RR would do, I assessed the situation, decided it wasn't safe to move to the yard, and not wanting to block the customer's siding, I set it out on a nearby MOW equipment spur and continued with the local's remaining work elsewhere. In the real world, if a crew discovers a piece of rolling stock has, for whatever reason, become unsafe to move, how would they address the problem? Would they send-out car men to attempt to repair the car sufficiently to at least get it to a car shop or the next yard? I'd assume a crane would be dispatched if the car needed to be lifted. Would that even be the job of car men?
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