A number of times it has crossed my old warped mind to model a derailment scene especially at the bottom of a trestle or bridge and of course there is an endless supply of junk on that auction site that looks like it ought to be laying at the bottom of a trestle since it isn't much good for anything else. Then I saw this and the bug has started to nibble at me again. A little modern for me but.......
Which this? Not sure what you're referring to, but there are plenty of the old junky bits around to cobble into wreckage, as:
I have seen a number of derailment scenes done in HO with an car or two that could not be retrieved at the bottom but I have yet to see a scene done in N scale or even a scene with the big hook pulling a car back up a hill. Lots of car bodies done on flats. The picture is recent and folks at MRL don't have a good idea yet on how they are going to get the cars and plane fuselages out of the river. Might end up being one of those get what you can and leave the rest to nature. Such a scene would need a short temporary siding to put the equipment on while the regular traffic creeps by on the freshly restored track.
What ever you model in your derailment, make sure you have at least 3 times the number of managers as workers. Better make that 5 times. Bosses seem to come out of the woodwork at these sorts of events. And remember, the bosses are always wearing the clean clothes, and are far enough back to stay that way. But still close enough to tell you, "you're doing it wrong!" :teeth:
The company claims people, public relations, safety, the managers in charge of the various power and rolling stock, the accounting people, attorneys asnd investigators (company and government), environmental, and more.... Argh.
Someone...and my brain keeps wanting to say Mark Watson...had a derailment on his old layout. I remember a pic of at least one boxcar laying on the river bank at the bottom of a trestle. I am gonna have to go find that old layout thread and see if I remember correctly ;-) Edit: I couldnt find the pic thats pretty vivid in my mind. Maybe it wasnt on Marks layout....but I remember a trestle and a trunnel and that boxcar down by the river though...grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Now I even can see an E or F unit coming out of the tunnel......double grrrrrrrrrrr. ** I hate getting old ** I did find a semi staged derail on his layout page though... http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine...er-Ridge-A-Freelanced-Focus-on-Scenery/page48
Welllllllllllllllll...searched Marks threads while my night time meds where kicking in. They did their job...I'm sleepy now. More search for that ellusive derailment photo tomorrow
Almost looks like a derailment that occurred on the old Oregon Trunk Line in fact eerily close to the actual picture as I remember seeing it. And a number of logging lines suffered runaways and derailments where the actual remains of the motive power can still be seen in through the trees today. And as much effort, time, and money that was spent by GN to erase any sign of the Wellington disaster, including renaming Wellington to Tye, there still can be found equipment parts up there today. So it seems that depending on the remoteness of the site and the difficulty factor of the terrain something almost always remains years later. So a scene could be modeled at the base of a tall trestle or bridge with trees growing up through the remains and be accurate.
By John Moore; This is a picture I took at Galesburg Railroad Days of the N-trak layout at the train fair at Carl Sandburg College. Sorry for the quality, or lack thereof, it was taken with my cell phone. I thought this would be a good way to use some of the old junk as well, which is exactly what they did as the cars that still had couplers on them were equipped with Rapidos. Looked like the first thing the salvage crew did was to retrieve all the usable MT and/or Accumate couplers.
Mike Danneman did one of the best wreck scenes I have seen for the July/August 2011 N Scale Railroading Magazine, check it out:
Well doing that gives some more operational interest and a chance to stage a nice scene. Traffic being routed over a temporary shoe fly under slow orders, the big hook with boom and outriggers deployed, and its accompanying cars, and the track gang busy restoring the track, all with the accompanying support cars. And of course the division super, road foreman of engines, and a gang of office flunkies standing to one side basically being in the way.
