This one made me laugh

On my layout. it would look like this.

My neighbor has the same problem everytime he brings the steam tractor lawn mower out!

Starts talking to me with the TMCC remote in his had and....

John, that nearly happened at Norm's house addressing engine 99 for his turntable.  Loco-Dan's S3 came to life and about jumped off the turntable.

43 injuries in this accident.

Washington D.C. Union Station 1953

How did they get the crane on that track? It looks like an engine stall track.

Every time I see this photo, I am amazed that the diesel did not tumble and it shows minimal damage. I bet the engineer could have used some Depends.

That is an amazing shot Howard, I was at Washington Union Terminal last week. It was so busy with restaurants that its had to believe that nobody was killed. And they had floored over the locomotive and had it looking good before Eisenhower arrived.

Yep. LAUPT overlooking Aliso Street (now the busway on the north side of the 101 Freeway). Saw a pre-freeway photo. What's now the freeway in the area was the Pacific Electric Aliso Street viaduct. The two tracks ran east, then curved under Macy street. The bridge is still there, pretty much unchanged. The wall where the locomotive crashed through has been "broken" again to accommodate the Metro gold line which crosses the 101 Freeway towards East Los Angeles, but is otherwise pretty much the same as back then.

One of the fun aspects of the hobby (at least for me) is the historical research. Explains a lot of why some buildings have odd shapes and why some streets run in odd directions.