Wipe Out Wednesday!

It could have landed on the power plant.

August 2015…..I was talking and not paying attention at our display at the Chesterfield County Fair…..

Peter

I like this topic, nothing to show yet but looking forward to seeing other's and trying not to laugh too hard. As long as no one gets injured!

Mikki

Be very very careful! Many engineers are trying to figure out the bugs in the Base 3 while running trains. You might want to have a fast way to turn off all layout power at once in case the app crashes and you lose control of your trains in a runaway mode.

Early last month.  0-8-0 is derailed due to a faulty track switch.

Late last month the same faulty switch, which MOW was supposed to have repaired, brought these cars off the rails and onto the ground.  Guess it's time to replace the switch.  

@Gary P posted:

Be very very careful! Many engineers are trying to figure out the bugs in the Base 3 while running trains. You might want to have a fast way to turn off all layout power at once in case the app crashes and you lose control of your trains in a runaway mode.

The ZWL’s front on/off switch has come in very handy!

Peter

Springfield, MO, 2013:

Radioactive gi-raffes! 

Mitch

I have been waiting for a thread like this so I can post this beauty. Listen for my ugh oh at the end. The video is several years old now but I still enjoy hearing my puzzled reaction

https://photos.app.goo.gl/fkdEn5pGNr8WvacC7

I've had a bunch. Mostly when shooting videos and not watching closely. Photo or video documentation is sketchy at best tho.....

Good thread idea, we need to laugh at ourselves from time to time.

Bob

Dang! I suck!

The D C Central had a little mishap a few years ago:

Sometime later:

Both actually happened,

The first was a quite long train that broke apart and the head end ran smack into the rear end.

The second was about the same.

@Putnam Division posted:

The ZWL’s front on/off switch has come in very handy!

Peter

With the uncertainty of the app crashing, I ordered one of these and keep it near or on me if walking around the layout. It kills track power only. Especially now that I can run multiple engines, you have to pay more attention or I’ll be posting on this thread.☹️

Gene

You guys either have a) too many trains b) too much track , c) too much stuff around the track or d) really bad luck!!  I have suffered from all those faults and had similar results to you but was not inclined to take pictures of it.  My family story in this regard goes like this...its 1947 just before Christmas and my Dad and Grandad are working on the "surprise" Lionel layout I am gettint (I am 3) for Christmas.  Grandad was determined that the train would go up a hill and come down, so he fashioned a sort of rise/fall piece of wood to go under the track.  However (this is before magnatraction remember) he didn't know how high to make the climb. So he would take the brand new Lionel PRR turbine and start it from one curve at full transformer velocity, it would make the climb but my Dad had to be stationed at the subsequent curve because he would always forget to reduce the voltage the engine would "shoot" down the straight and right off the end of the table (where my Dad would be stationed to catch it).  Thus determining that the slope was too great, he would take the wood down to the cellar and shave off some extra from the top...and then return to the same experiment.  Luckily nothing broke and I did get the set for Christmas.

Don

@Genemed posted:

With the uncertainty of the app crashing, I ordered one of these and keep it near or on me if walking around the layout. It kills track power only. Especially now that I can run multiple engines, you have to pay more attention or I’ll be posting on this thread.☹️

Gene

When I built my current layout, I added remote control for the whole layout and for individual transformers.  I can reset the PH180's from anywhere, I don't have to access the physical bricks.  I can also hit the master and power the entire layout off.

As an afterthought, I also added this layout power pilot light.  Yes, I did get a nicer plate and fixture after I installed it and realized it was a good idea.   This reminds me that the layout is on so I won't leave it running when I leave the basement.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

When I built my current layout, I added remote control for the whole layout and for individual transformers.  I can reset the PH180's from anywhere, I don't have to access the physical bricks.  I can also hit the master and power the entire layout off.

 

Thanks John, it was because of a previous post on a thread that you gave me the idea to buy a remote plug for my PH180.

Gene

LOL!

Some of you guys are the Master's of Mayhem!

I've had one truly spectacular derail on my Kansas City & Gulf "Ozark Sub" layout. It happened during a structured operating session. (I was operating solo at the time). It was indeed spectacular and looked way too realistic for comfort!

In the case of the derail I mention, I went ahead an went with it and treated it as a actual mishap and set about dispatching the needed movements in order to clean up the mess. As is the case on the prototype, getting the main line back in operation was a priority. Doing so actually turned out being a lot of fun!

Here's just a handful of many pics I shot and shared with some of my model RR friends at other forum venues.

Some of the carnage in Buck Holler (not all derailed cars are in this picture)...

And here's a pic of the clean up of the mess in Buck Holler...

And some of the cars went down the side of the embankment and fouled Possum Creek Lumber's spurs, effectively shutting them down until the mess was cleaned up. Here's a pic of the clean up of that area...

Getting the main line open again along with the ensuing clean up of all the cars made for a lot of additional fun in that operating session.

Andre

Of course, this thread wouldn't be complete without...

the Master of Mayhem, (ca 1964-ish).

Evacuate the house before attempting to right those cars.

@trumpettrain posted:

Late last month the same faulty switch, which MOW was supposed to have repaired, brought these cars off the rails and onto the ground. Guess it's time to replace the switch.  

@trumpettrain - OR replace the MOW workers.