Concrete 1 BLI 0 !!!!

[Anonymous]

I have a Broadway Limited EMD SD40-2 Quantum Sound LOCO.It is my most sencevitive train so I use it to test the track.I was having some derailments on a outside curve so I was using it to see were it was I turned my back and the next thing I know is the concrete was eating it!!!!! All the trucks fell off the pickup wires came off the shell is broken in a couple of places I'm [V].
On a good note I got my Diamond Scale 135' turntable in an the motor turns it well I have 1 place were the wheel comes off but for a frist time turntable builder I think it is going to do just fine.What a job putting that thing together I'm glad that is over with for know.Now I know why they say this is a life long hobby because it takes a lifetime to get things working right.


Thanks Barent

[Anonymous]

**OUCH!!**

I feel for ya man! [:(]

I know there isn't, but there ought to be, some kind of insurance policy made available to MRR's for accidents like this...

[fiatfan]

You have my sympathy! I had a similiar (but not as expensive) incident over the weekend. My P2K SD7 took a 4' header off the curve. Fortuneately the only thing that happened was the gearboxes came apart.

Tom

[johncolley]

I had a similar accident with a LL SD9. Off about 42" high onto carpet with the above results to the drives and handrails, but the body looks OK. The trucks popped off with the driveshafts and caps going in several directions. It appears that you have to disassemble it completely in order to get it back together.

[trainboyH16-44]

Yeowch! Concrete 32, me 1. I almost lost a Kato SD40-2 once. I was carrying it to the workbench so I could replace the Kadee 5s with 58s, and I was holding it by the shell, not the frame. [D)] anyways, the shell seperated from the frame, and it fell 3 feet. [#oops] The front truck was blasted apart, and the pilot was bent, but I fixed it quite easily [:D] Just a few weeks ago I was working on a bridge that was making rolling stock derail, when a P1K C-Liner started rolling towards the acess hatch that I was in. I couldn't stop it.[xx(][xx(][xx(][:O][:(] It lost it's b end entirely, and tough I did het it back together, it's mising some small slivers of shell. It's okay, I didn't run it as much, as I use my 3 C-Liners on passenger, and only 2 can fit in the siding with my passenger train.
The other 30 are mostly minor incidents, and I once made a spectacular save of a walthers tank car.
Trainboy

[SpaceMouse]

I feel your pain.

[Vampire]

I think every model railroader has had a similar experience at one time. I have trains running around the walls of my home office on two tracks, above the doorways. I've had a few items come crashing down, mostly because I did something careless! [banghead]

I once was filming the trains with my girlfriends full size VHS camcorder and knocked the lead locomotive off when it went into the curve behind me. Fortunately it was an Athearn "Blue Box" Dash 9 so it suffered only a bent end railing and a couple of small dents. One of the nice things about those older Athearns, durability.

Last weekend I managed to bring down a 5-unit intermodal car [:O]. It crashed onto my desk... wheels and containers went everywhere! I've almost finished the repairs. Fortunately I haven't toppled any steam locomotives... at least not yet!! [:P] [X-)]

[steveblackledge]

That is not good news at all about the SD40-2, my sympathy[:(]
i had this happen with a dash 9, it hit concrete nose first and it shortened the frame by 1/4 inch, it's never been the same since

[Anonymous]

I hear you man. My P2K SD7 took a spill off my display shelf a few weeks ago. It's so badly mangled I think I may just sell it off or use it for spare parts.

[challenger3802]

Forget the concrete and put down wooden floors, they give more bounce! My grandfather had a layout 4 foot off the ground, one engine would go round for hours, then when your back was turned, the inevitable crash would be heard. Wooden flooring helped to soften the fall.

The engine in question still works fine and is close to celebrating its 50th birthday! (They don't make 'em like that anymore!)

Ian

[gmpullman]

Just a coincidence or is it mostly SD-7s flying through the air here? I lost an SD-7 when someone forgot to take the rerailing ramp off the main and it was hidden behind a building. SD-7 did an Evil Kenivel through the air and onto the concrete a scale 800 feet below!
Body shell was OK and I found an SD-7 at a flea market for $25 so I just swapped chassis. It was C&NW so everything was green, even the truck side frames. A little weathering took care of that!

[Anonymous]

I have an SD9 that hasn't shown any inclination towards becoming airborne, though I also have a "Frontrunner" 4-wheel piggyback car that had had the grab irons at one end rebuilt 4 times after "incidents". Next time it happens they're getting replaced with brass wire. The problem is that it's very light compared to other cars and rolls very freely!

Regarding the original loco: Are the electronics ok? I was thinking you could probably fit these into either a Kato or late Athearn BB SD40-2 (I have one of the Athearn ones - best BB loco I own, has single-piece driveshafts which stops it growling). Add a few details (maybe rescue some components from the original BLI?) and you'd have a fine-looking loco for not a massive outlay. Just a thought!

[Pruitt]

I had a brass GN P-2 Mountain take a plunge onto the concrete once. Oh, the pain!!!

It cost a couple hundred dollars to have it repaired, but that included painting it (it had been unpainted.

[turbine682]

Yes, this almost brings tears to my eyes....

Once, a stupid engineer (me) sent the entire N-Scale Pocahontas (Class J, Aux tender, and 6 Heavies) off of the 500' cliff (trestle to wooden floor).[:O] All lives lost, but miraculously, no damage to equipment!!!

Scattered pieces parts to a Trix I-9 all over the floor one day [banghead]. Engine not replaced. Cost less than 80.00 in 1991 - over 200.00 today.

Caught an H-16 in midair on its way to the floor when I snagged the trip pin[D)].

Keep Railroadin!!! [swg]

--Ed

[csxns]

Dont have any of your tracks running alone the edge of the layout and nothing will fall off.

[turbine682]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxns

Dont have any of your tracks running alone the edge of the layout and nothing will fall off.

Great advice! We all (should) learn from our mistakes ! --Ed

[jimrice4449]

I had a similar disaster with a set of CB&Q E-9s that I had laboriously fitted with simulated stainless steel side panels. They were on a track that ran along the layout edge and that had been inadvertently left live. While working elswhere the super quite P2K units ran to the end of track where they torqued themselves off of the RR and onto the floor.
My next project was to go to Lowe's and buy a sheet of strong, flexible, clear plastic sheet (the kind used for storm windows), cut ti int 5'" strips and staple it along the layout edge wherever there was a "dropping hazard" so that it sticks up about 2 inches above table level. It's virtually invisible and there isn't an HO guage engine around that's big enough to knock it down

[JohnT14808]

Yikes!! Sounds like an entry for the "Basic Model Railroad Wrecks" book that another posting has started..... Hope you get it repaired ok.

[nickinwestwales]

I guess although it`s heartrending to lose a valued { and valuable} piece to natural disaster,we ought to try and think of it as getting closer to the real thing. Was surfing through C.N.Lines files t`other day looking for F7A data and the number of units whose histories concluded with "engine wrecked & scrapped" was truly staggering-the vast majority seemed to happen over in B.C. for no good reason I can think of....regards,nick