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Out of Scale!

General Discussion
#1

I had forgotten this Donald Duck cartoon that has a backyard railroad in it, and Chip and Dale too!

#2

Argh! Sorry, but videos disappear here without a lot of cause:

#3

And of course, there’s the Addams family train…

#4

Jim Rowson said:

I had forgotten this Donald Duck cartoon that has a backyard railroad in it, and Chip and Dale too!

Sure looks a lot like Walt’s Carolwood Pacific.

#5

Love them old cartoons!

#6

Hey Gang;

Noticed something about the Adams Family toy train wreck – it’s ALWAYS the same!! Production must have filmed it once, then dubbed that sequence into any episode where the script called for a toy train wreck. Makes good sense. Train wreck episodes were probably far enough apart that the viewing public never noticed the “wrecks” were identical. Even back then Lionels were probably expensive enough to prevent wholesale destruction of toy trains, and it could get more costly with multiple “takes.” Also notice that there are no wires coming from the ZW transformer. The trains were most likely run by a studio tech who was off camera.

Fun stuff, nevertheless.

Cheers, David Meashey

#7

Pete Thornton said:

Jim Rowson said:

I had forgotten this Donald Duck cartoon that has a backyard railroad in it, and Chip and Dale too!

Sure looks a lot like Walt’s Carolwood Pacific.

Pete,

It IS Walt’s Carolwwood Pacific :)! Note the Barn in the upper right of the photo in the background. Now The Barn is permanently in place at our live steam club at Los Angeles Live Steamers in Griffith Park, Los Angeles.

#8

Dave Meashey said:

Hey Gang;

Also notice that there are no wires coming from the ZW transformer. The trains were most likely run by a studio tech who was off camera.

Cheers, David Meashey

Dave,

You didn’t look close enough. The wires are connected and run down to the underside of the layout.

I also noticed that in some scenes his Lionel trains are running on Super O track and in others on regular O gauge track.

#9

Yeah Joe;

I probably should have stopped the motion on the video. I could see them with things paused, but really don’t think they were connected to the track. John Aston flips the ZW throttle levers all sorts of ways, but the locomotives don’t react to that the way they would if that transformer were actually controlling them.

Also noticed both tubular and Super O track, plus the trains are always running on Super O track when they crash.

My best college buddy once did something destructive with an HO Athearn Hustler that displeased him. Mounted the balsa framed, tissue clad wings from a crashed model airplane to the Hustler, and throttled the Hustler full-tilt off the top step into the basement. He said that the maiden and final flight went pretty well until the Hustler met the basement wall.

Best, David Meashey