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OOPS! Time for the BIG hook!
Doesn’t look good for the engine crew.
Been there, done that
Fall down and go boom?
I think it was tired and just wanted to take a nap.
Somebody stuck their foot out and tripped it.
Park it anywhere! Clear the track....l'm comin' through!
I hATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS
Man! Somebody get be the big soldering iron! The cab broke off! Drats!
Someone let the air out of the tires, on one side. What you call being the flat butt of your own joke. j
He meant to do that!
The timetable read "wheels-up" at 4:27...
...a chance for foamers to give her a belly-rub?
See, this is what happens when you let the cats play on the layout.
See, I told you it did not have 3rd rail pickups. 😮😮😮😮
Hey, you scratched my Choo-Choo!
"It'll buff right out!"
Catastrophic signal loss - parallel tracks too close together - needed a booster !
This is what happens when you do not have Magne-Traction™ on your locos!
The command module pilot did a stir of the oxygen tanks on the tender.
Someone needs to start that diet!
Darrned pennies...
Is that a mail train on the next track past the wreck? The box cars between the baggage/passenger cars have end doors. Can anyone make out the lettering?
Adriatic posted:Is that a mail train on the next track past the wreck? The box cars between the baggage/passenger cars have end doors. Can anyone make out the lettering?
The enlarged photos seems to show that they are all SP. The locomotive tenders are also lettered "Southern Pacific Lines", thus the photo has to be pre-war, i.e. WWII.
Yes, this is the Oakland, California Yard of Southern Pacific. Don
Probably 027 gauge.
Almost missed this....
Despite position, one couldn't tell if the subject was a "mail" or not
Banana peel on the rails gets 'em every time!
There is no problem. Houston is not involved.
Should win "best diarama" award at york!
To quote legendary local freight Conductor 'Peaches' Alford: "Holy cow! What're we gonna tell Van Ausdale this time?"
I think there is a boxcar full of brownies en route to Oakland.