fess up! Have you ever had an inkling to do an Adams Family style crash scene?

no......

I never would want to, however last night I forgot I had a switch open to a siding.

I just backed a steam engine into the siding and a double A diesel unit went into the siding. Fortunate for me the diesel was moving slow and no damage was done. 

I would never damage any train. I have had a few unintentional ones that did do some damage to one of my engines and I was not happy for a couple of weeks. So the answer to your question is a big NO! and I Never will do something that stupid!

Nope.

Not intentionally.

No, no, no, no!

 

At least not on purpose....

I'd love to.  it's not the crash, it's the blowing up the bridge!

 

 

 

Unless the engines in question violate your "Isle of Denial" paint scheme rules, right Matt? 

You could stage an "Addams Incident" by posing equipment in a wreck-like fashion without harming anything.

 

Although you'd need a fair amount of Photoshop-fu to add the flames and smoke via digital fakery.

 

As for "for real for real" wrecks? No, I try to avoid that. In fact, I think I have at least one locomotive from my carpet-central days (a K-Line 4-6-2) that has never been involved in a derailment.

 

---PCJ

Who wouldn't want to crash stuff and blow up a bridge with a moving train on it?  There are probably more that a few folks here that would donate an engine to see it meet it's demise in such a fashion. Thing is, I always got the impression Uncle Fester comes from big paper, around the north shore of Chicago they call it old money.  He can afford to indulge in his destructive dreams.  Not to mention the time.  Lucky guy that Uncle Fester.

NEVER

 

Art

Seems like only an idiot would do it. this is real life not Hollywood. 

Definitely not anything that's expensive or has a lot of personal value! I can understand maybe a few junky engines that were made for taking abuse from little kids like some postwar engines, or even some Generals in an old-fashioned staged head on like the real world did, but definitely not anything that's over $300, value wise or expense wise.

 

YES I would love to do it.If I were 8 years old.Nick

 

Of course,why else would a grown man play with trains?

Dan

Thank you Dan986.  That was choice.  That really says it all.  Well done.

Now that you mention it. ..it would be fun to buy a couple of junkers. The explosion would be a little beyond me though. 

No, worked to hard to keep nice trains. The show was funny, but that's about it.

Never as an adult.  But, as a boy of 9 or 10, my younger brother and I would stage head-on collisions between the 675 freight train and the 2356 Southern AA passenger train--the diesels always won.  We were careful enough to stage these collisions on the inner loop of the layout so no trains hit the floor.  Apart from the steamer occasionally tipping over with the tender, and some minor derailments of other equipment, it wasn't very exciting visually--we always anticipated more action than actually occurred.   

 

Both trains ran this Christmas and are in remarkably good cosmetic and mechanical condition--nothing broken, the AA noses are fine, a bit of paint loss on the 675 cowcatcher, but that's about all the damage we caused.

Yup, that's what LEGO trains are for.  Then you can rebuild them and do it again!  The fun never ends.

Sounds like fun, but I value my trains too much.  

However, if you look in the boxes under the tables at train shows, you will realize that Adams Family style train wrecks must be enjoyed by a large number of enthusiasts.   

 

Bob

Are you referring to the original poster?

When I was a kid; not now.

Don

Uncle Fester aka Jackie Coogan put his successful show biz career on hold to serve in the Army in WW2. My stepfather served with him in combat.

No, not even when I was five years old.

 

fess up! Have you ever had an inkling to do an Adams Family style crash scene?

Never, not even when I was a kid.

 

There was one episode I remember laughing at when I was a kid, however, where someone suggested to Gomez -- after one of the Lionel crash scenes -- that he should buy a real railroad.  Gomez got this faraway look in his eyes and said with that idiotic zeal: "Boy!  Imagine what you could do with those babies!"

 

I'm sure Lurch grumbled afterward...

 

No, I loved the show when it came out - BUT - I used to cringe when I watched the wrecks (Berkshires !  F-3's !  *sob* ). Felt the same way when the 1st movie came out as well (that other magazine had an article on the layout that was built for the movie).

For me, it is all about making things, not destroying stuff.  The idea of staging a crash sickens me.  Isn't there enough evil and hardship in this world already?

 

Joe.

When I was a kid my brother and I did this with 2 old beat-up engines until they  stopped running.

-Greg

If it fits anybody's thinking then yes.

Seriously?  To get this serious about a toungue in cheek idea to begin with?  Didn't you guys smash hot wheels cars together, put firecrackers and snakes in plastic models with a trail of model glue and blow them up?    Uncle Fester and Gomez Adams just had license to live out a child's destructive fantasies.  I kind of think it is meant as a joke, not something to get uptight about.

I did it with my HO trains, minus the explosives.

I knew the Lionels were something special from little on up. I never had the thought to crash them, and got very upset with Dad when he did.

Yes!

No not on purpose.

Wow! the reactions here are so reserved that I will refrain from fully responding.

Can you buy a plunge-style detonator without ending up on a watch or no-fly list of some kind these days?

Ah am a-pretty sure that even the Gomez crash scene isn't actually a crash if you watch it carefully. Seems to be a bit of quick editing where the engines are on the bridge in a stationary position already. Only one is seen moving and it comes to a stop.

Even the newer movie shows a large flash and no actual collision. Is that a Lionel Hudson?

All that said, I bet some of that plastic Marx stuff could handle it.

When I had one Lionel train as a kid, I didn't dare screw it up because I knew I'd never get another.

When I was into HO as a teen, it was all track power, everything moved the same direction and speed, so crashing anything never came to mind then.

Now that I have On30 with DCC, I could now have a 'cornfield meet' but now I'm back to the original concept that it'd be tough to explain to my wife why I need new parts for one of my ten-wheelers after the crash as the detail parts up front are pretty fragile, I'd think.

Also, I had my fill on destroying things on your tax dollars through the Army.

I never did any crashing, but I did fool my big brother once. We both had American Flyer sets and I would sometimes ask to use his because it had a steam engine. I was always very careful with both of our trains. One time I set up a straight track and parked both locos nose to nose, scattering the cars in a zig-zag pattern off the tracks behind the locos. When he saw that, he had a fit and even though I explained that it was a setup, it was a long time before I could borrow his train again.

 

A friend always asks if he can crash the trains when he comes over. I always tell him that if he brings his own trains, we can crash them. He says that is no fun. I say he must have been a bratty kid in his childhood.