We used to do that kind of thing all the time as kids. And the faster the better! 
Not so much these days though.
Rod
No.
I don't think I will respond 
This makes me cringe!
And this is a little bit more fun:
No!
.....
Dennis
My son and my Nephew did at Christmas. They are 28 and 29. I made sure before they came over I removed all the good trains on the table and replaced them with ones that I didn't care about.
I have a lift bridge that I am about ready to blow up!!! It only needed a controller, said the seller.......
First everybody has a price. Second I would safely say Most of us would never damage a train for laughs, We are not a bunch of Gomez's. Third we pay a lot of money for our beloved trains..a lot of money(so says the wife)..e.g.. You discover you have two of your favorite RR boxcars, and your a kinda guy like me that knows that will drives him crazy, same car with the same number and you bought it twice so you decide to put this car up for auction on the bay. It sells for 1000.00 bucks. Now where is that second car ???,
So for some reason some Gomez wants to see a train blow up and film it, I say No problem( I have a few starter sets I will not miss.) I will shoot it ASAP, two trains running into each other and crash and burn in HD 1080, it will be 5000.00, we take cash or check.
We all have a price.
never have
No, not intentionally.
No Thank-you, for the big crash.....
I almost forgot about this guy's stop-motion wrecks. Yes, they're HO, but ol' Gomez wishes he could stage wrecks like this in real time 
..and this last one, which supposedly went viral:
---PCJ
Guys,
Do you actually know what an inkling is? It is a desire, (in me unfulfilled) to see the destruction, but as I am an adult now, and I have several expensive train sets, I will not try this.
Suffice it to say that I got this all out of my system at 10 years old when I lit my model planes on fire and watched them burn or when I did wheelies into the bushes or blew up (with firecrackers) toy soldiers that I had just purchased. I never actually tried this with my American Flyer trains and I'm glad that I never did (as they are worth much more to me sentimentally!
Ah those bygone days of our youth, alas they are gone (47 years ago). Thanks to the guys that posted movies of the scenes from the Addams Family you are the best!
Mike Maurice
not until now. This got me thinking about picking up a few post war steamers and maybe a few cherry bombs
To dangerous to even think about, even outside.
Art
Heck yeah! How about inviting me over for your next operating session?
A rule laid down my Dad when we were growing up "If you can't afford to lose it, DON"T PLAY WITH IT!" The lesson in that saying is that no toy is so valuable you can't live without it.
If I decide to rebuild my display this year I may just have to pit the Southern Crescent against the Milwaukee Special on the top tier as a kick off to the demolition. Unfortunately the bridges up there wouldn't come down without some pretty powerful charges that would probably take out the closet too. I'll have to add another task to research list for the new display.
. I believe va va voom is the term!
Sparkler bombs will take it out. Come on over. I brought a couple of lots on eBay that have some engines that are worthless so they will be perfect. It will have to wait for summer so we can do it outside!!!!
I'm glad some guys saw the humor in this. I get worried sometimes. 'This is real life, not Hollywood? ' Playing with toy trains? Uhh... Ok!
My wife likes to play with the trains too.
She brought a bottle of wine up to the train room. Her birthday she wants to go to York!!
Gentlemen,
One of my 1st MOS's was 17 Mike, MI Unattended Grounds Sensor Specialist, all the Sensors we used were for setting off Claymores, Daisy Cutters & such, we got to blow up the real stuff, in the Viet Nam era. Man if I had the money I would blow them up just like on the Adams family, especially if Carolyn Jones ask me too.
PCRR/Dave
I am with you!! Forth of July is our favorite holiday so we can blow things up.
If I could find a couple of '11xx' shark fin Scouts that actually ran, maybe. Otherwise, no, not on purpose.
Of course, there was the incident on the South Hills Shopping Center layout when TMCC first came out. We were demoing two trains operating independently on the same track, and discovered the chicken wire used to hold up one mountain blocked the TMCC signal. So the loco kept going when it was supposed to stop, then reverse direction to avoid a collision. Ooops!
No. Not even as a kid. I have a heart condition along with
other ailments. Watching an Adams Family Style crash scene
would put me six feet under.
To envision a Lionel Hudson or GG1 meeting head on, oh
mercy I would rather root for the Boston Red Sox. Frighting.
Many thanks,
Billy C
Perhaps we should adjust our outlook in these modern times, and send in all our dead
CW-80s for a suitable Youtube explosion video? 
We never blew anything up at the club but we did do something that was out of the ordinary We have a bascule lift bridge that doesn't have any train control So if a train is coming when the bridge is going up it will fly. So one day there was about ten grown men having a contest to see how high a flying train would go and still land on the tracks. We used a Lionel Mexican GP38 and it was still landing on the tracks at 2.5 inches of bridge lift. The way we were reacting at the landings was like we were ten years old.
Now you're talking. I'm proud of you guys.
Back then they were $50 toy train sets - cheap enough and common enough for a TV show to destroy a couple for fun. It is amazing that something that was done only once in the series is one of the most remembered things.
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
No.
You say "no" but then your motto, well at least based on what you've put at the bottom of all your posts says "if no one has ever done it that way it might be fun to try." Or more to the point, the implication is that you're willing to try new things. Sorry, but the irony made me laugh!
To answer the question - yes! Well, at least to the head-on crash, not the explosion. We (my 10-year old twins) and I did it inadvertently. Aside from the slight "freaking out" it was exciting. The plan is to get some very, very inexpensive old plastic locos and do this on dreary days to brighten the mood.
Peter
Hey bmoran! Thanks for the train crash videos, that was some of the funniest stuff that I've seen in awhile! Love how the seemingly endless stream of boxcars keep piling up.
my brother and I did Gomez Addams style crashes with flaming debris in the hoppers for added effect. That is until some dinner guests smelled "a burning odor" coming from the basement where their kids and us were playing with the trains.
the stuff hit the fan BIGTIME! but my parents' guests still wanted to see the trains run
You married a saint!!!!!!
Originally Posted by rboatertoo:
She brought a bottle of wine up to the train room. Her birthday she wants to go to York!!
Sorry, I can't say that I have ever had the urge to intentionally crash my trains. I've been in the hobby on and off for 35 years now and can honestly say I have never even had the urge to crash trains on purpose.
This is FREQUENTLY requested by Children when we're operating the club modular display. The thought of intentionally wrecking locomotives is out of the question.
Gilly
I would wreck any train that had ERIE LACKAWANNA on the sides..... 
NOT Adams family....
BUT "Silver Streak" made an impression with me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cyhBroQsNA
esp with the Girder & Panel sets!
all the time!!!
I have more than a few old (from mid 60's) junkers in my lineup, including junked and broken freight cars. Now and then we'll put a couple trains together and run them on a section of my layout with auto-reversing loops and crossovers until they spectacularly crash. Sometimes it's a t-bone, sometimes a head on.
Nothing bad ever happens.
To answer another poster, I too would run hotwheels towards each other. The best was when they'd have a head on crash in the loops.
As Warren Oates (Sgt. Hulka) so famously said, "Lighten up, Francis!"
You mean that's not gonna be an operating accessory in the next catalog
Not even the detonator?
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That's the beauty of the stop-motion version. Nothing has to get damaged, and you can animate the resulting zig-zag pileup just like the real thing 
---PCJ
