(OLS) operation lifesaver on layout

[cr6479]

I'm doing an operation lifesaver on my layout. I will be using three SD60I with 100cars. what kind of car or truck should i use to do this. any comments would help.

[kpolak]

Maybe you can give these people a call:

Operation Lifesaver Illinois: 

Operation Lifesaver has a wide variety of educational materials for all ages. To order Materials, contact: Elite Promotions 1-800-720-8516, or Morton Suggestion 1-800-323-0423.

 

I hope this helps,

Kurt

[Andrew Falconer]

LIONEL produced an Operation Livesaver O Gauge Boxcar.

There is still one at L&J Hobbies here in Portage, MI.

Call all the hobbby shops to get those Boxcars.

Andrew

[Anonymous]

What do you mean?

[cr6479]

What do you mean?

 i'm making an OLS video. i just need some tips. it's about a car or truck trying to beat the train.

[kpolak]

Youtube has a few videos of trains vs cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtv14ZM8DNI&mode=related&search

This was staged, but it will draw a few more videos for you.

Kurt

[Andrew Falconer]

Would you like the vehicles to collapse upon impact when the train strikes them?

Andrew

[cr6479]

Would you like the vehicles to collapse upon impact when the train strikes them?

Andrew

 yes that be nice.

[Andrew Falconer]

Die-Cast Automobiles are out. They are too thick and too strong to be crushed.

To achieve the crushing effect the autos and trucks must be made from very thin materials that are closer to scale dimensions.

Vacuum-formed thin plastic sheets and aluminum pan foil hand shaped into the form of a scale automobile model would be the best way to make crushable automobiles.

If there are any already produced they would be in a Dollar store or someplace similar.

Andrew

[kpolak]

This might be better suited for a RC train that does not have electricity in the rails. 

If foil crosses the rails it will short!  This is true of all electrified rail model trains.

Kurt

[Andrew Falconer]

Vacuum-formed plastic automobile made from thin, brittle sheets of Polystyrene formed into parts would be the best way to recreate a crash with an O Scale Locomotive.

There might be models that are Vacuum-formed. It will take a bit of work to find them.

It might be just as easy to ask some model makers to assemble them.

The Polystyrene sheets could be vacuum-formed around Die-Cast Zinc Models.

Andrew

[csxt30]

Maybe one of these old rubber cars would work !!

Thanks, John

[lionelsoni]

Andrew posted:  "Vacuum-formed thin plastic sheets and aluminum pan foil hand shaped into the form of a scale automobile model would be the best way to make crushable automobiles."

I recall seeing the suggestion long ago to make cheap automobiles by forming aluminum foil over more expensive models, then painting.  I couldn't find it on the forum; so it might have been in the magazine.

[Anonymous]

Youtube has a few videos of trains vs cars.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtv14ZM8DNI&mode=related&search

This was staged, but it will draw a few more videos for you.

Kurt

As Mythbusters would say; "Well there's your problem!"