Man I like this guy!
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That's great
JohnB
Fun, wacky stuff! I miss him!!
Holy Guacamole!
Back when he was still funny!
Jon 
Exactly
I agree, miss him as well. Good stuff
Notice at this point, Letterman came close to ending his career permanently...
Rusty
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Super Dave Osborne and crew would be proud of David. This is Mike Walden reporting.
Gregg posted:Super Dave Osborne and crew would be proud of David. This is Mike Walden reporting.
Yes indeed! In keeping with the situation, does anybody have a video link to Super Dave's railroad rocket sled failure....er...stunt?
I liked his set backdrop with all the bridges too!
Rusty, I noticed the same thing!!
Rather some dumb things to do considering there are humans just like we are who are in need of just plain food and drink, etc. Mr. Letterman is a sometimes customer in my friend's train store. If he shows up if I am also there I would want to question him about the stunts. The last time I saw him at the train store he had grown a beard so big that at first I couldn't tell it was him until he starting speaking.
Nice to see Larry "Bud" Melman again! Anybody know what kind of engine it was? Looks like an Alco switcher of some kind.
Rusty - if you look closely at the segment with the light bulbs, the moment you're talking about appears to be a composite of videos. I'd guess one shot is of him walking away, the other is of the locomotive arriving. One of his legs is blocked by one of the rails. And there's a somewhat faint second image of the light bulbs.
I watched the show pretty regularly in the NBC days, but I missed that episode, I guess. Thanks for posting it here, JohnB
David
NKP Muncie posted:Rusty - if you look closely at the segment with the light bulbs, the moment you're talking about appears to be a composite of videos. I'd guess one shot is of him walking away, the other is of the locomotive arriving. One of his legs is blocked by one of the rails. And there's a somewhat faint second image of the light bulbs.
I watched the show pretty regularly in the NBC days, but I missed that episode, I guess. Thanks for posting it here, JohnB
David
I think the clip has been doctored. I saw this when it aired on the Letterman show. As I recall, his elbow got clipped by the locomotive's handrail.
Rusty
What railroad?
This from an LA Times story (sourced to newspaper's wire services) at about the time it aired:
CROMWELL, Conn. — Superman may be more powerful than a locomotive, but it's David Letterman whose motive is a bit loco.
Letterman, host of NBC's "Late Night With David Letterman," was in this central Connecticut city Monday for the taping of a segment called "Smashing Things With a Train."
"We hope to fill up three minutes of television time," Letterman said.
The taping involved a train locomotive speeding along about 35 m.p.h. into piles of crushable items, including fish tanks loaded with gallons of guacamole, an ice sculpture, a big stack of melons and a superhero doll.
"We are just running over a lot of weird things with a locomotive," said Randy Cohen, a writer for the show. "If it entertains America just a little, then we've done our part."
The segment is for Friday's show.
David
Man I feel bad for that engine's coupler area!
Anyone modeling this in O Scale?
I miss Dave, Rob
I liked some things Dave did, hated others. That video is in the hate side.
Seriously -- old guy on a gurney hit by a train and lives to tell about it? Ain't gonna happen.
Much worse if the old guy didn't make it! Even Dave has a line he won't cross just for a laugh! Still miss him!
