@Miggy posted:Steller! Always a bit of nifty pivot, that misses the bulls eye. On a Logical note from a person who runs toy trains on the carpet, Why did that not de-rail the engine? I mean, really, I can hardly get over two 022 switches with out going backwards or derail, let alone running over a car on the tracks. Guess shorting out on the tubular Lionel Three-rail, help prevent that kind of wreckage. A Hotwheels VW will stop my GG1 in a shorted heartbeat, saving the V-dub to drive another day.
I asked my father a similar question when I was in fourth grade. Basically, it's a matter of scale.
If you were to take a Hot Wheels VW and expand it to life size, the walls of the casting would be six inches thick of solid metal, and it would weigh as much as an actual locomotive!
Likewise, if you took an actual automobile and shrank it to Hot Wheels size, the sheet metal would be about the same thickness as gold foil.
So, if you want to approximate the actual effect of hitting a car in O scale, take that VW, wrap it in tinfoil, remove the tinfoil and hit THAT with the train! 
Mitch
