The other day I was blowing leaves from the yard and Rail Road and I didn’t notice that the guys forgot to pick up a boxcar from a siding and in all the leaf blowing madness the car ended up on the roof!
The Blue Crew was dispatched yesterday to take the crane train down to the site, remove the boxcar and bring it back to the yard for repairs. I recorded the job and put together a video of the action.
Wow! An impressive leap! What a fun video.
Todd,
🫡 Love the video!
What a lesson in preparedness. I think I can speak for most of us, that something like that would shut down our railroad and that the goods car would be there for months.
I did note that you used munchkin labour in the process… did you find any legs with white and red striped stockings sticking out from under the boxcar during the recovery process? 
Were any of the Bachman gears that the car was carrying get damaged? I keep reading here that they are quite fragile 
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“We’re off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz”
Thanks John and Bill.
It’s tough to have a RR this time of year in New England. There is no popping out to run a quick train without first cleaning the track of leaves. I have a railbroom and a blower for that but when the leaves pile up too much, the big blower has to come out.
Yep the Smurf’s work the RR. They are known as the Blue Crew.
No wicked witches were harmed in the making of this video. 
The Bachmann gears made it out uncracked.
Really fun video, enjoyed the “action”.
Notice that maybe the crane boom hit the drain pipe, not sure.
Also, i loved the GHA (giant hand action) helping to get the box car off the roof. Some would have done that and skipped the video, but you? NO! You made it fun! 
Me too!
“Don’t pay any attention to the man behind the curtain!” -Wizard of Oz.
