How did it stay upright?

T251 · Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:06 am

it would be so funny if you could do that on MSTS.
but it would be so annoying

nutbagg · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 1:41 am

The wheel burns are real. Not sure if they are the same incident but the Southern railroad in US had an incident when a remote controlled mid train unit (unmanned) lost radio signal and the unit was left stuck in power so when the train stopped this unit kept powering but it couldn't move the train on its own. So it sat there spinning its wheels and digging huge holes in the rails like in the photo here.

Mate, if that loco pulls as hard as you do, it'd move anything.
I'd still rather have an ALCo.

TheLoadedDog · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:16 am

My understanding of these situations is that it's not so much a matter of the wheels grinding/digging out the rail, as it is a matter of heat. The friction doesn't directly gouge out the rail, but it does make things very hot. Hot metal is soft metal, and the heavy locomotive will simply sink into rails that have become little more than cheesesticks.

Humphrey! We're leaving!