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Even though those are European, you are correct in that the concept could work well on any layout.
Don't you just hate it whens someone just yanks the track right out from under you?
That actually happened to a crew I was on one time when we were spotting cars on a siding. Luckily, I wasn't the one watching those cars at the time. We only lost one car though. Right off the end of the rails. LOL It's funny now. Not so much then.
Rick
Oouch !!!
I have modeled that, or something similar, many times over the course of my toy train career.
Pete
When I was working in one of our plants, the loading foreman called me down back one afternoon to investigate an accident by one of our switch crews. The crew had shoved down a stub end storage track that ended in a pile of dirt. They had managed to run one tank car up the dirt pile and down the other side with one end of the car coming completely off the truck. The crew said the cars had "gotten away" from them but, it was apparent they had made the shove move with no one protecting the end of the cut. Nor could the engineer explain why he kept shoving when the engine should have encountered noticeable resistance.
They both "enjoyed" some time off.
Curt
Park it anywhere! I had to look at those hard, to realize they are not N. American.....those gons look more like N.A. cars than a lot of over the pond rolling stock.
Every time I modeled that the car ran over the track behind it and shorted out the entire system. It usually happened when I had an engine on a siding and forgot it was in a 'lashup'. Didn't take it out with TR0. I would have fired myself, but there would be no one to pick up the pieces. Even a knucklehead operator is better than none sometimes. Somebody's gotta do it.
colorado hirailer posted:Park it anywhere! I had to look at those hard, to realize they are not N. American.....those gons look more like N.A. cars than a lot of over the pond rolling stock.
Yeah, I had to look twice, too. I see even the Europeans have trouble with vandals.
