I tried one seven or eight

I tried one seven or eight years ago.  I was told that it's an unlikely scene with a wrecker trying to lift or stabilize the fallen locomotive when it was perched mid-trestle.  I dunno, trestles were built to withstand buffeting and compression in the hundreds of tons from heavy trains crossing them, sometimes at speed.  One problem nobody mentioned during their criticism, and which I came to realize later, is that if there are extendable stabilizers for the crane, they couldn't be deployed on a trestle.  Anyway, for better or for worse:

Thanks for the reply

I hadn't thought of something as elaborate as your trestle scenario. What I had in mind was more along the lines if a spur that heads toward a backdrop so it wouldn't impact operating sessions but could provide quite a bit of modeling opportunities as well as visual interest.

In the valley

A few years ago, I was at the Springfield Train Show, and I saw an incidental wreck.  A hopper can had gone off a trestle long ago, and wasn't worth salvaging, so the rusted hulk was still there.  In times past, a wreck that wasn't worth the effort to recover would just be left where it fell.

Actually that has been

Actually that has been modeled on our club layout. In the first picture below you will see three trestles. Behind the tall timber trestle there is a wrecked steam engine that fell from the trestle.

I have another picture that might show it a little bit below.

The wreck is behind the trestle and requires one to be looking for it.

I could not find a good photo but did find a sideways view of a layout trip from an Icar. The wreck can be seen at the 3:52 mark of the video. This video will give you a tour of our club layout, part of it as if you were looking out the window of a train traveling on the line.

Hope you enjoy.

Derailment

This was not staged, it actually happened when a coupler box dropped. . . 

Whenever a wreck occurs...

...I pull out my camera! My layout is still in progress, but I need to work on tracks and get them straight so none of my trains derail. Unfortunately, they've been doing a lot of that.

Took this photo on a layout

Took this photo on a layout tour a few years ago.

Paul O

And then there's catchpoints...

to catch stuff that gets away on the hill - like the coal skip on its side beyond the tracks

The catchpoint is out of view uphill to the right....

modelling this photo from the 1890's/early1900's

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in which the catchpoint can be seen to the right of the tracks. Original photo attributed to NSW Mines Department on the Illawarra Coal website.

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Mike Budde did it (I think).

In the pond

Someone did not properly set the brakes, or King Kong got angry, and an SP engine ended up in the pond behind the engine house.

I took this photograph at the Rogue Valley Model Railroad club in Medford Oregon.

Erik