Major Derailment on Chugman's Layout (Pics)

The operator was probably running "distracted".  I bet he was yakking on the cell phone or using the OGR forum when the incident occurred.  GOOD THING NOBODY WAS KILLED!

Looks like you need to call Hulchers 1:48 crew!

Yea ,
The NTTSB is gonna rip you a new one.

National Toy Train Safety Board.

David

At least he didn't have to get a drug test...

Probably be fine till they got out the breathalyzer.
Hide the corn liquor

David

It's from the ethanol plant!  HONEST!

I wonder if they can run that way with the trucks on two separate tracks....maybe you're on to something new:

6 Rail Scale!

I wonder if they can run that way with the trucks on two separate tracks....maybe you're on to something new:

6 Rail Scale!

All kidding aside, I hope there's no damage or it is very minor.  Have you inspected the engines, cars and track?  I didn't see any spread rails.

WITZ 41,  Nawwww nothing new.  I've seen em run that way in real life once in awhile.  I think they were TEXTING.  Or, heaven forbid, SEXTING.  

 

Rick

Did the Chugman have to go in a cup?

 

B&OB

Down here it'd be hard to hide since we don't have any ethanol plants.
Just ones that make this.
David

Hope all is OK, but it was an interesting visual!

Wow who is going to pay for that cleanup.

 

I noticed you started installing under table switch machines, what kind are you using?

 

Hey it looks like you talk to BNSF Mike a lot, tell him to post a layout update!

Thanks for all the fun comments.

 

We are starting to replace the Atlas switch machines with Tortoises. I am starting to have some problems with the Atlas machines not keeping the points closed properly. I had always planned to replace them eventually and decided that now is the time.

 

The engineer has refused to take alcohol and drug tests, he can be glad that this isn't his full-time job. Homeland Security has been called. Mainline has been cleared and trains are running again.

 

Art

I bet it was that crackpot in the switch tower playing one of his dumb jokes again.

dispatchers fault..cleared the line before the inspection crew checked the faulty switch circut relay.

 

Does Gomez Addams live close to you?

 

 

 

"Who Me?"  I would NEVER think of accidentally destroying a train, destroying a train on purpose, yes, but never accidentally.  

Art,

Sure it wasn't a cow on his way to the Kraft cheese plant in Champaign, Ill. that was crossing your tracks? LOL!!

I like the nice zig zag pattern of cars!

Well, I think my temporary loop of O-72 on the dining room floor is getting pulled up tomorrow  I finished replacing a broken knuckle on one of my boxcar's couplers after dogzilla ran it over on her way to the window to bark the mailman.

One of the only disadvantages to having to live in your parents house.
Enjoy it while you can

David

For sure  I just don't want to trust leaving my GG1 there anymore.  That might be pushing my luck.

Art

 

You are lucky no one was injured and that your  insurance is paid up!

As you did not mention that you are represented fee free to contact my firm.

No That GG-1 of yours is far to nice to leave in the hands of mans best friend.
Guess that's why your mom always says Jake pick up your toys. Now you know why
Or do like we do for ours. In the part of the house they aren't allowed in, we have a gate they can't get thru but we can open easily. It works really well . It would help you to enjoy your trains and dogzilla would only be able to come in there when you want .

David

When situations like this occur, there's only one solution...

 

0-5-0 Wrecking and Crane Service.

0-5-0 Wrecking and Crane. We're always ready to lend a hand!

The conductor was probably using an electronic device while the train was moving and there was no audio/video recorder facing inward to the cab which would have prevented the whole incident!

 

Sorry just a little real life sarcasim.

Hi Chugman your not alone this happened to me twice in

the last month. The switch point's didn't move over all the

way. The only difference is I have real trax switches. I hope

 you don't have any damage.

 

THANKS, ALEX

This just in....... One of my Penn American Railroad henchmen... errr, I mean Professional Investigators was able to hack in..... uhh, get in touch with our contact at the NTTSB and found out this was a blatant terrorist attack!! Some maladjusted, malodorous, misfits of mayhem had placed a large scale penny on the tracks. If you don't believe it, just ask me.

The gremlins are definitely at work on this one. I have ran the train repeatedly through this switch and everything acts normal. Apprently when the problem happened, the switch was erratically throwing after each truck passed and the next truck would travel down the adjacent track. All the trucks of the engines and cars were on the track and nothing shorted. It ran like this until the lead engine's rear end hit the column supporting the upper level where my bus depot and Union Station are located.

 

We have these switches wired for electronic non-derail and I am guessing that one of the rails is making a momentary contact with another rail that it is supposed to be electrically isolated from. This has happened before with Atlas switches unfortunately.  

 

The biggest problem now is that I won't trust a train running through this area until I can find why this is happening and correct it.

 

On the plus side, the jack-knifed train looked pretty cool and a lot like real train wrecks that I have seen.

 

Art

I have to day, the train wreck did look like the real thing.  The only difference is there wasn't cargo strewn all over the place.

It doesn't look real. it looks staged.

Eddie - I know what you mean. When I saw it I scratched my head as it did look staged, but I assure it I didn't touch anything before I took the pictures.

 

Art

It happens on the real railroad too...

 

As a old man at a airport in 1 of the diehard movies."If they think I am gonna clean this up!They can kiss my @ss!!!"

Hi Art, what a calamity.  That is one of those things that will have you scratching your head......glad all is well with the equipment...

What were you "chugging" before the wreck???