I notice two things watching this compilation. 1) It's the same train wreck each time. 2) The whistle sound is exactly like the train on Petticoat Junction.
Exactly. I caught the whistle sound effect right away. I figured out several years ago, after having been to a "whistle blow" event (hook up an adapter muffle to a city steam supply and have collectors bring in about 100 different whistles for about six hours), that the archival whistle sound used for both these scenes and for Petticoat Junction was from a Southern Pacific homemade six chime whistle. There is no mistaking it if you hear it in person. It certainly was not from any whistle used by the Sierra Railway (their number #3 served as the Hooterville Cannonball, heavily cosmetically altered). It really is a great whistle sound.
The train whistle sounding like Petticoat Junction isn't surprising. The Addams Family and Petticoat Junction were originally made by the same tv company.
As I understand it, in the original comics by Charles Addams, the character actually did not have a name. When the TV show was being developed, he recommended either Gomez or Repelli for the character’s name, leaving it up to John Astin to make the final decision.
I grew up with the animated show in the 90's and boy was I shock when my parents told me that Gomez was voice by the original Gomez. Man he's wonderful!
I have that Addams family Super "O" layout at my house. No explosives though. It was originally built for a Twilight Zone episode in 1960 by the Lionel display department.
No explosives? Why else would you play with trains haha! Jokes aside that’s awesome! Is that a recreation of the Super O layout? For years I wanted to build it using 027 track
@@richardstrainsandmore Yeah an exact remake. I would send you a picture of it if I had an email you want it sent to. As far as making it out of O27, it would not come out right because Super "O" is 36" diameter on center. Plus you need the 30 degree angles the switches come off at to make it work.
Yeah in 027 it can’t be an exact duplicate piece for piece but I did assemble an 027 test on a 4x8 board once. It did fit and work but needed special track sections to be cut. Your layout wouldn’t happen to be the recreation done here is it? www.tcastation.org/info.asp?t=Trackage&colnum=10&submit=go
You’ve got a sharp eye for every detail, right down to the control panel. That’s an amazing piece of work! How long did it take you to perfectly recreate it?
I don’t know if Lionel sponsored the Super O layout (there’s AMT cars and older Lionel products and it’s from a Twilight Zone episode) but I’m fairly sure they had something to do with the 031 layout because there were newer trains
@Ralph Goober - Slot cars were very popular when you were a kid! The Sears Christmas did not have a train set in 1965, but several slot car sets. Seems most boys I knew had a train set, slot car set, or both. Marx, Lionel, & Tyco did offer combination train & slot car sets.
Isn't it funny how they'll use the SAME EXACT crash clip from the very first episode? Seriously, always keep an eye on the background in the crash/explosion shot, and you'll spot Gomez and the School Staff Character in the background! Pretty funny and a weird recycle use of footage!
Crazy isn’t it? Did they think no one would notice?! It gets worse when they switched to a different layout and the same Crash is still played. I even remember catching that goof when I watched the show as a kid on TV
@@richardstrainsandmore i guess they probably had a discussion on bringing the frame much closer so you wouldn't notice the background...it must cost a lot to even get that single shot! Even though it is a goof we all notice, i cant help but see it as an unintentional running gag haha
True, Gomez finally got his chance to blow up that steamer! I could be wrong but didn’t they use balsa wood models for that scene cause the Lionel engines wouldn’t fly apart like they wanted?
Actually if you look really close at the last shot, the diesels aren't moving at all. The are just parked face to face when the bridge moves, the fire starts and the steam engine comes to a stop. Clever editing makes it look like they just crashed. But they are clearly stopped except for the steam engine.
Yep you're right no cursing and no blood shed I'm sure they made certain those shrunken heads Wednesday and Pugsley had been playing around on the series have been completely drained of blood..
I remember watching the 1st? movie and Morticia and kids were listening to Gomez wrecking the trains. She called out every move every train made until the explotion! 🤯. It reminded me of the TV show. Anyone who watch the show and noticed details, knew it was the same wreck. People who studies explotions knows there is no such thing as identical wrecks/explotions!
I can only presume staging multiple wreck scenes would’ve racked up production costs. Not to mention how many takes to get the the explosion and trains timed just right. They probably assumed no one would notice the recycled shot, even when they switched to a whole different train layout
@@jojomayard7233 I’m almost certain that air horn heard at 2:56 was from a GG1 like in this video below. The rest were likely pulled from a sound effects library. th-cam.com/video/0-5iT4KPXkw/w-d-xo.html
Gotta love how he pulls the ZW handles to "switch tracks". Or pulling back to speed up when that would normally slow down. ZW's are the best! Using mine to power tmcc.
That goof always bugged me cause moving the ZW handles like that only slows down one train and speeds up another. It won’t switch tracks! Oh well it’s only a TV show. I’ve got 2 ZWs myself and both are powerhouses with postwar equipment
Nothing is wrong with the breaker. That built-in breaker was implemented to protect the transformer not the trains. However to get it to respond faster you need to use a heavy #14 copper wire loop under your layout with often #18 gauge drops to the track to cut the resistance out of the formula. The built-in breaker has to be 13 amp to handle the 275 watts. Most of the time a derailment will not draw 13 amps, hence it will not blow or not blow until an enormous amount of time lapses, by then something is melting or smoking. You should be using supplementary Lionel #91 circuit breakers for each leg of the ZW; A, B, C, D. Those work ideal and do not have the thermal delay of the built-in ZW type. They will trip at a blink of a eye flawlessly and are adjustable from 1 to 6 amps. Lionel intended you to use these as a supplement to your ZW. If you chose not to, you are going to get smoke when you get a short circuit or derailment.
You know all those train collisions are the same scene. I understand this. The television studio must have had a limited budget, and couldn't afford to blow up multiple train sets, so re-use the scene. Anyway, I wish I could have blown-up my train set like that when I was 9. :(
I’m sure a lot of kids wanted to after watching this show. My father always said he tried as a kid with a Lionel 2018 and 221 but all it ever did was make a loud “KLUNK” sound and derail the engines. I’ve always wondered though how many retakes it required to get that explosion scene just right...
If Gomez knew sir topham hat Gomez you have caused confusion and delay, Gomez, oh I thought crashing trains was fun No, your gonna go to your shed Gomez. No it isn’t goodbye.
It looks like two different train layouts. I have had a few "Poof" moments on my layout, such as a track cleaning car, filled with alcohol, catching fire from sparks from the spinning wheels of the locomotives as the heavy freight train passed by. Good video. ♡ T.E.N.
Good eye they did use 2 different layouts, presumably the first layout was damaged from storage or on stage and a second layout was constructed. And thanks!!
If you'll note in the episode where Uncle Fester is powering the layout. At the beginning of the skit, you may note that the crossing gate arm is almost at the edge of the board. A considerable distance from the train track. That is a detail that I would correct on my version of the season two layout.
I’m sure the set designers had practically zero knowledge on model railroading but that’s a good catch. It looks to be a plasticville non operating crossing gate
Some familiar train sound effects here; I recognized the steam locomotive whistle from "Petticoat Junction" in the second clip, and I also heard the GG1 horn from the old Looney Tunes cartoons! (such as at 3:24) And of course that stock explosion sound effect that the old MGM, Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera cartoons used.
Good catch! I never realized that’s the same whistle as the Hooterville Cannonball. Sort of bizarre since Addams Family was on ABC networks and Petticoat Junction was CBS
@@richardstrainsandmore Yep, I know the Cannonball's whistle is on the Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library from Sound Ideas, along with that explosion sound.
A LITTLE bit? Hahaha. John Astin has explained how that was always his take on the character, as a sendup of Groucho. From mustache to cigar to phrasing to timing. And the of course Raul Julia played HIM.
I remember reading somewhere that in the original script for the 1990 movie, the trains were going to be a bigger part of the movie and there were a lot more crashes planned. The problem they eventually ran into was that the Lionel trains were so tough, they couldn't really damage them. They would derail, but that was about it. In the one crash they actually did shoot for the movie, they ended up making "look alikes" of the engines they were using out of lead and other soft materials and basically catapulting them into one another so they would crush and buckle during the collision, on top of filling them with mini pyrotechnics to make them explode. I guess it ended up being more of a job than they figured on, so they only did one. Now Lionel trains are junk made in China like everything else.
When you have as much money and a spend crazy attitude of Gomez, you’re gonna have a bunch of trains on standby for when he’s in the mood to play with them again.
My dad bought me the exact same silver stream liner depicted near the end of this video. It was a Lionel. I never blew it up, but, did crash it through little plastic bricks.
John Astin's portrayal of the Gomez Adams character actually looks a whole lot like the famous trumpet player Bunny Berigan, who was himself a doomed character in real life. I wonder if there was any real inference intended by either Mr. Astin, or the studio execs?
So I wasn’t the only one who thought Gomez resembled Bunny Berigan! It could’ve been a strange coincidence although you’re right both had doomed lives. Interesting.
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It appears that whern the trains are just going around the track the Sante Fe locomotive is an O27 Alco. However, on the bridge it appears to be an O scale Sante Fe. Looks to be a beat up 2343 because it has side ladders, front grab irons, and real port holes. Also, the back truck is silver. But, tyhe front truck seems to be black?
I believe it is the same whistle just pulled from a stock sound effects library. Being how Petticoat Junction and Addams Family were airing on TV around the same time I wonder if viewers also noticed it was the same whistle
I hate to say it but if my trains only went in circles, I would probably want to blow them up too!! My dad loved trains and always said he would build a layout in the basement, but he never did. He did however build me a N scale layout a lot like the one Gomez had. I played with it a lot but always wanted something bigger. When I moved out I started planning my empire. I started on it twenty years ago and I'm still working / running it. It is HO scale there are almost two hundred switches on it. Seven train yards, it can operate several hundred cars. As Gomez says "these trains always take my mind off troubles" In fact I think that's what I"ll go do right now.
I'd come as a big guy looking forward to the derailment scenes... and it turns out to be the same recycled one every time. OUCH in childhood. At least later movies honored the train layout.
They miss one favorite episode clip of a train wreck right after Gomez makes his wreck Morticia I think she grabs him and says in a joyous tone "Gomez you're the perfect saboteur" that quote had always stayed in my mind...Anybody guess know why that was omitted? I guess that word had been omitted since 9/11.
If you read the description there’s a part 2 with the other 2 episodes that featured the layout. th-cam.com/video/VZ7ghPp-8Bk/w-d-xo.html it’s here at 1:48. And it’s “You’re a born sabateur”
@@richardstrainsandmore thank you Richards think just saw your message now I never got the notification that you left me this notice. I'll check it out thanks very much please take care and stay safe during this pandemic hope we will pull through and be over this catastrophe in so many ways it has been bad. Thanks good luck
0:13 me running my trains :D also what an epic showdown, gp7 vs f3. And didn't they use tubular and super o layouts, you know like switching between different layouts
Lol! And 2:49 is me when I get angry over a locomotive that won’t run! You’re correct they had two different layouts, a 5x9 super O and then a 4x8 031 tubular. Presumably the super O layout got destroyed which is why the second layout debuted
Oh ok, I was wondering why half way through the show the layout switched I thought maybe Gomez needed a new one because he "wrecked all of his trains".
HAHA!! That would’ve been awesome to see Gomez literally blowing up his entire layout then having to build another. Of course all those postwar pieces would’ve been creamed though...
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You know I never understood what that quote means either. Does it mean the trains were meant for Pugsley but he took it or like you said is he calling himself a child? Or did John Astin simply flub his line?
@@richardstrainsandmore: *Well, Gomez is sorta like a child or childlike which there's NOTHING wrong with it. I think it's funny that way. And, if you think about it, Morticia does 'baby' him in that way which is cute in their own way. But, I think it's just his way of saying "hey, grown ups can play with things too, just as children can." or .... since Gomez is childlike, then maybe he meant it that way.. Either way, I adore Gomez.*
Yup you are correct those are Auburn or AMT cars. I have no idea why the production team chose those over Lionels. My only guess is they were cheap used and they knew they would be destroyed during filming
@@richardstrainsandmore The movie is a real mishmash too. The passenger train is a Northern Pacific set, but stop the movie at the right place, you can see the tender says New York Central. Lots of Marx or K-Line stuff in the background too. Opening shot of the steam loco shows a Marx looking tower in the background, a shot of the diesel with a turntable and yard in the background shows two Marx or K-Line cars. the boxcar (With the distinctive Pullman "Bow tie" style roof panels) and the covered twin hopper, plus an old cheapie plastic Marx engine in the background. On top of that, a prewar box style Lionel tender behind a 1980s steamer.
You’ve got a good eye they really did throw a lot of mixed stuff on that layout. It sounds as if they went to a train store/convention and bought used or junked items for background scenes, which might explain why a prewar tender is behind a newer plastic 0-4-0. They used two steam engines, mostly an 8609 and 8606 at the end, in various scenes but kept the 8606’s NYC tender even when the 8609 was shown. I can’t figure out why they mishmashed them either! I actually recently bought an 8606 with correct NYC tender and I’m thinking of reenacting some of those scenes, without blowing it up of course!
That’s still a problem with DC powered trains but with AC powered O scale (the scale used in the show) the locomotive’s direction is controlled by an E-unit rather than current polarity so technically you can have two trains on the same track going opposite directions, even have them collide head on!
There is no problem running two trains against each other on 3 rails AC layout, even loop to turn train around is not a problem. With 2 rails DC, it will short circuit. With 3 rails, positive is in middle rail, therefore no problem to have loops or run trains in different directions..
They recycled that footage of the bridge exploding in every episode and as a kid I never noticed.
Except for that episode where he doesn't wreck the trains in which pusgley, is not in the mood for doing it so.
if you freeze it at 1:05 at the right frame. you will notice that Morticia turns into Sam Hillard.
Thats the problem with a clip collection like this. You start to notice these things😆
LOL thinkin the same!
It's funny how much Gomez resembles a demented Walt Disney - who was also a train enthusiast.
At least Gomez wasn't a nazi
Gomez: "Why else would a grown man play with trains?"
@Royce Reid That's why you KEEP trains. Not the same thing as playing with them. Clearly, Gomez never cared. :-)
Gomez was prob a shareholder. Had a hundred sets out the back lol
Exactly
You wanna blow the next bridge?
I would
I notice two things watching this compilation. 1) It's the same train wreck each time. 2) The whistle sound is exactly like the train on Petticoat Junction.
Exactly. I caught the whistle sound effect right away. I figured out several years ago, after having been to a "whistle blow" event (hook up an adapter muffle to a city steam supply and have collectors bring in about 100 different whistles for about six hours), that the archival whistle sound used for both these scenes and for Petticoat Junction was from a Southern Pacific homemade six chime whistle. There is no mistaking it if you hear it in person. It certainly was not from any whistle used by the Sierra Railway (their number #3 served as the Hooterville Cannonball, heavily cosmetically altered). It really is a great whistle sound.
Yep, and I also recognized the train horn sound at 3:24 from the old Warner Bros. cartoons (I think it's a recording of a GG1 electric locomotive.)
The train whistle sounding like Petticoat Junction isn't surprising. The Addams Family and Petticoat Junction were originally made by the same tv company.
You're absolutely right I just made a comment about the train footage and I heard the whistle and thought of Petticoat Junction when I heard it
13thBear Yep, plus I noticed they attached the steam locomotive to a freight car without its tender.
Look at that manaical gleam that's always present in Jon Astin's eyes! Was there ever a better Gomez, although Raul Julia came close.
I say both John Astin & Raul Julia did a great job doing their own versions of Gomez
Agreed!
As I understand it, in the original comics by Charles Addams, the character actually did not have a name. When the TV show was being developed, he recommended either Gomez or Repelli for the character’s name, leaving it up to John Astin to make the final decision.
Lol
His expression at 3:31 is priceless
I grew up with the animated show in the 90's and boy was I shock when my parents told me that Gomez was voice by the original Gomez. Man he's wonderful!
I have that Addams family Super "O" layout at my house. No explosives though. It was originally built for a Twilight Zone episode in 1960 by the Lionel display department.
No explosives? Why else would you play with trains haha! Jokes aside that’s awesome! Is that a recreation of the Super O layout? For years I wanted to build it using 027 track
@@richardstrainsandmore Yeah an exact remake. I would send you a picture of it if I had an email you want it sent to. As far as making it out of O27, it would not come out right because Super "O" is 36" diameter on center. Plus you need the 30 degree angles the switches come off at to make it work.
Yeah in 027 it can’t be an exact duplicate piece for piece but I did assemble an 027 test on a 4x8 board once. It did fit and work but needed special track sections to be cut. Your layout wouldn’t happen to be the recreation done here is it?
www.tcastation.org/info.asp?t=Trackage&colnum=10&submit=go
@@richardstrainsandmore That's it all right. I just took some better pictures with a new camera. Looks way more colorful than the one in the link.
You’ve got a sharp eye for every detail, right down to the control panel. That’s an amazing piece of work! How long did it take you to perfectly recreate it?
A few wrecked trains helped Lionel sell a few thousand. In the 60's train manufacturers were hurting for sales.
I don’t know if Lionel sponsored the Super O layout (there’s AMT cars and older Lionel products and it’s from a Twilight Zone episode) but I’m fairly sure they had something to do with the 031 layout because there were newer trains
@Ralph Goober - Slot cars were very popular when you were a kid! The Sears Christmas did not have a train set in 1965, but several slot car sets.
Seems most boys I knew had a train set, slot car set, or both. Marx, Lionel, & Tyco did offer combination train & slot car sets.
Isn't it funny how they'll use the SAME EXACT crash clip from the very first episode? Seriously, always keep an eye on the background in the crash/explosion shot, and you'll spot Gomez and the School Staff Character in the background! Pretty funny and a weird recycle use of footage!
Crazy isn’t it? Did they think no one would notice?! It gets worse when they switched to a different layout and the same Crash is still played. I even remember catching that goof when I watched the show as a kid on TV
@@richardstrainsandmore i guess they probably had a discussion on bringing the frame much closer so you wouldn't notice the background...it must cost a lot to even get that single shot! Even though it is a goof we all notice, i cant help but see it as an unintentional running gag haha
Hey, even toy train wrecks are expensive.
It was the same film loop everytime.It saved the show money,too.
@@WillScarlet16 A friend showed me his Lionel 1965 catalog. I think a pair of Santa Fe F3 diesel locomotives retailed for $ 65.
The steamer avoids getting wrecked every time! The diesels are the ones getting bashed all the time
Maybe Gomez hates diesels and blows them up instead lol! Although at 1:29 there’s a wrecked Lionel 2037 steamer on its side so who knows
Then came the movie where the other steamer had a head on collision
True, Gomez finally got his chance to blow up that steamer! I could be wrong but didn’t they use balsa wood models for that scene cause the Lionel engines wouldn’t fly apart like they wanted?
Actually if you look really close at the last shot, the diesels aren't moving at all. The are just parked face to face when the bridge moves, the fire starts and the steam engine comes to a stop. Clever editing makes it look like they just crashed. But they are clearly stopped except for the steam engine.
It was sweet seeing them when they first met, or at that first magic moment.
9:36
Morticia: We must accept our friends for what they are.
Thing: Dude, get a ring on that finger pronto!
Gomez would have made a good Amtrak engineer.
Ditto
Better yet......he would have made an excellent air traffic controller, especially the way he put two trains on the same track. Go, go Gomez!!
He would make a killer brightline driver too.
I was thinking more like Island of Sodor engineer.
No, Gomez belongs on CSX.
I just realized that they use the same footage for every crash, and it fits so seamlessly
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@@vince065us That's the one I was thinking of!
@@robertthomas5196 They say that Big Swamp stock is hot these days!
Ha ha
I'm 60 years old reminds me of when I was in grade school again loved every episode did you notice there was no Bloodshed no cussing just pure humor
Yep you're right no cursing and no blood shed I'm sure they made certain those shrunken heads Wednesday and Pugsley had been playing around on the series have been completely drained of blood..
Lol Gomez wrecking the trains had me dying
Edit: My childhood was a lie. All of the Addamses did not have their iconic names until the TV show.
NOW I GOTTA HAVE THAT RAILROAD BLULKER! I JUST WRECKED MY LAST LOCOMOTIVE!
Every wreck should have the recording "THAT'S A FENDER BENDER!!"
You know, that phase would perfectly fit after each wreck haha!!
Thanks to Lionel Traintown for the enjoyment
Steampunk1993 Productions That’s a really good one!
I know that reference!
I remember watching the 1st? movie and Morticia and kids were listening to Gomez wrecking the trains. She called out every move every train made until the explotion! 🤯. It reminded me of the TV show.
Anyone who watch the show and noticed details, knew it was the same wreck. People who studies explotions knows there is no such thing as identical wrecks/explotions!
I can only presume staging multiple wreck scenes would’ve racked up production costs. Not to mention how many takes to get the the explosion and trains timed just right. They probably assumed no one would notice the recycled shot, even when they switched to a whole different train layout
@@richardstrainsandmore SR #3's old whistle 2:34 SP #4449's air horn 2:56 ASTF #3751's 6 chime whistle 3:03
@@jojomayard7233 I’m almost certain that air horn heard at 2:56 was from a GG1 like in this video below. The rest were likely pulled from a sound effects library.
th-cam.com/video/0-5iT4KPXkw/w-d-xo.html
Okay. Morticia and Gomez are couple goals.
I enjoy Gomez's joy in destroying trains.
Gotta love how he pulls the ZW handles to "switch tracks". Or pulling back to speed up when that would normally slow down.
ZW's are the best! Using mine to power tmcc.
That goof always bugged me cause moving the ZW handles like that only slows down one train and speeds up another. It won’t switch tracks! Oh well it’s only a TV show. I’ve got 2 ZWs myself and both are powerhouses with postwar equipment
This is something I've always wanted to do but never had the money or space for.
TheDUDERulez1 be as insanely rich as Gomez and you’ll have that opportunity
I loved watching the Adams Family!
two different layouts one with o gauge tube track and one with super o track
I still have the same 275 watt transformer that was used in the show
You mean the 275 watt ZW? The best transformer Lionel ever made, I just wish they’d put a better circuit breaker in it
RichardsTrainsAndMore yes
RichardsTrainsAndMore yes that is the one. You may be able to get a better aftermarket breaker for it.
You’re right you can add an external circuit breaker to it. Should’ve done that before I fried my Lion Chef engine, oops!
Nothing is wrong with the breaker. That built-in breaker was implemented to protect the transformer not the trains. However to get it to respond faster you need to use a heavy #14 copper wire loop under your layout with often #18 gauge drops to the track to cut the resistance out of the formula. The built-in breaker has to be 13 amp to handle the 275 watts. Most of the time a derailment will not draw 13 amps, hence it will not blow or not blow until an enormous amount of time lapses, by then something is melting or smoking. You should be using supplementary Lionel #91 circuit breakers for each leg of the ZW; A, B, C, D. Those work ideal and do not have the thermal delay of the built-in ZW type. They will trip at a blink of a eye flawlessly and are adjustable from 1 to 6 amps. Lionel intended you to use these as a supplement to your ZW. If you chose not to, you are going to get smoke when you get a short circuit or derailment.
You know all those train collisions are the same scene. I understand this. The television studio must have had a limited budget, and couldn't afford to blow up multiple train sets, so re-use the scene. Anyway, I wish I could have blown-up my train set like that when I was 9. :(
I’m sure a lot of kids wanted to after watching this show. My father always said he tried as a kid with a Lionel 2018 and 221 but all it ever did was make a loud “KLUNK” sound and derail the engines. I’ve always wondered though how many retakes it required to get that explosion scene just right...
Morticia looked hot in pigtails......just saying.
Stuart Aaron It is.
Gomez has something against the Santa Fe (F7 and coaches) and the M&StL (Red and white Geep). Got to love it!
They’re portrayed as a family of freaks, but if Gomez ever let me play with his train set, I would _totally_ hang out with him.
"If you wreck one train, you can wreck the world."
Father's playing with his trains.
Spirits above me,
give me a sign.
Shall I be joyous, or shall I be damned?
If Gomez knew sir topham hat
Gomez you have caused confusion and delay,
Gomez, oh I thought crashing trains was fun
No, your gonna go to your shed Gomez.
No it isn’t goodbye.
0:59 the old whistle from Sierra Railway 3
It's that boyish grin, I still laugh to this day.
Always loved the train scenes
It looks like two different train layouts. I have had a few "Poof" moments on my layout, such as a track cleaning car, filled with alcohol, catching fire from sparks from the spinning wheels of the locomotives as the heavy freight train passed by. Good video. ♡ T.E.N.
Good eye they did use 2 different layouts, presumably the first layout was damaged from storage or on stage and a second layout was constructed. And thanks!!
If you'll note in the episode where Uncle Fester is powering the layout. At the beginning of the skit, you may note that the crossing gate arm is almost at the edge of the board. A considerable distance from the train track. That is a detail that I would correct on my version of the season two layout.
I’m sure the set designers had practically zero knowledge on model railroading but that’s a good catch. It looks to be a plasticville non operating crossing gate
That's an awful lot of damage ....
Gomez...... Naaa that'll just buff out
I like the sound of that contrabass saxophone in the background.
Some familiar train sound effects here; I recognized the steam locomotive whistle from "Petticoat Junction" in the second clip, and I also heard the GG1 horn from the old Looney Tunes cartoons! (such as at 3:24) And of course that stock explosion sound effect that the old MGM, Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera cartoons used.
Good catch! I never realized that’s the same whistle as the Hooterville Cannonball. Sort of bizarre since Addams Family was on ABC networks and Petticoat Junction was CBS
@@richardstrainsandmore Yep, I know the Cannonball's whistle is on the Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library from Sound Ideas, along with that explosion sound.
Well now that’s interesting. Was the whistle and explosion sound effects ever used elsewhere?
@@richardstrainsandmore I know some of Hanna-Barbera's cartoons used them.
I just took several of those sound effects and used them in this video!
th-cam.com/video/jxeJjgkGI_M/w-d-xo.html
I just noticed that there was a little bit of Groucho in Gomez!
A LITTLE bit? Hahaha. John Astin has explained how that was always his take on the character, as a sendup of Groucho. From mustache to cigar to phrasing to timing. And the of course Raul Julia played HIM.
I heard that Cousin Itt's room in the attic is up for rent.Dirt cheap!
I came for the trains but I just HAVE to say this:
9:03 Morticia looks absolutely adorable in that outfit!!!
Did some research on the Lionel engine at 0:35. She's a Minneapolis & St Louis EMD GP9 No. 2438 built between 1958-1959.
Never thought I’d see Uncle Fester run out of juice.
Now I know what I want for Christmas.
Many trains were harmed in the makings of these films. Thankfully, no Thomas trains though.
Somewhere Sheldon Cooper senses a disturbance in the Force.
These are great. So is the first movie's scene.
That old Lionel transformer was a beast.... It probably could run a real train if it was connected right. ha ha
I connected one up to 480 volt 3 phase one time. It made all the street lights on the Munsters set dim, then explode. True story.
@@funone8716 - I believe you.
Notice how they obviously filmed the train crash / explosion shot once and used the same footage every time?
Isn't John Astin playing Gomez as Groucho Marx? His manner is sure similar.
My favorite parts of a classic show!
I enjoyed it... nice set up.....
Thank you!
RW:wow even when Pugsly is not in the mood ,the dynamite and fuse are not in a exploding mood either.😕
That scene never really made sense to me, why couldn’t Gomez just reset the dynamite and fuse and try again?
RichardsTrainsAndMore because Gomez In the now kind of person to him the moment was prefect Anything after Wouldn’t feel the same
RW:got a point there Trey.;:-)
Best Adam train crashes ever !
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3:03 the whistle it reminds me a lot of ATSF #3751's 6 Chime whistle
We must accept our friends for what they are. Morticia Adams
Nice Super ‘O’ trackage.
What a lucky Steam locomotive! Usually it's the GP7 and F7 that get totaled.
Surprised those trains even still work after being blown up so many times!
After all they were Lionels and those darn things could withstand a war and still work
I remember reading somewhere that in the original script for the 1990 movie, the trains were going to be a bigger part of the movie and there were a lot more crashes planned. The problem they eventually ran into was that the Lionel trains were so tough, they couldn't really damage them. They would derail, but that was about it. In the one crash they actually did shoot for the movie, they ended up making "look alikes" of the engines they were using out of lead and other soft materials and basically catapulting them into one another so they would crush and buckle during the collision, on top of filling them with mini pyrotechnics to make them explode. I guess it ended up being more of a job than they figured on, so they only did one. Now Lionel trains are junk made in China like everything else.
When you have as much money and a spend crazy attitude of Gomez, you’re gonna have a bunch of trains on standby for when he’s in the mood to play with them again.
Good Show Old Man!
Jeez, I LOVED these train wreck scenes...Too bad I immediately set out to wreck my trains also...
Came here to see what it would look like if Heyward and Rizzo ran into eachother
My dad bought me the exact same silver stream liner depicted near the end of this video. It was a Lionel. I never blew it up, but, did crash it through little plastic bricks.
“BOOM!!!” Never gets old!
John Astin's portrayal of the Gomez Adams character actually looks a whole lot like the famous trumpet player Bunny Berigan, who was himself a doomed character in real life. I wonder if there was any real inference intended by either Mr. Astin, or the studio execs?
So I wasn’t the only one who thought Gomez resembled Bunny Berigan! It could’ve been a strange coincidence although you’re right both had doomed lives. Interesting.
@@richardstrainsandmore how was gomez doomed??
Well more of the fact that Gomez led a reckless lifestyle blowing up things or playing with dynamite, stuff that’d surely kill you
@@richardstrainsandmore ok, I can see that!
I wanted an electric train very badly in early 70s when i was in elementary school. I saw one of these clips around then and nearly lost my mind.
funny, the circut breaker the hand pulled is a Lionel 1930s prewar piece meanwhile the rest of the layout is 1959-1960
🤨🤔🤨😑😆 ohhoh conjunction conjunction what's the missfuncion. Train-ing in explosive track,o,tack. 🧨🚂 oh da train da train.
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Mysterious and spooky there all together OK the Addams family.
Sorry to be that guy but it's 'ookie' not 'OK.'
@@TheDUDERulez1 Thank you. I couldn't bear to say it.
I Looove trains, and that does make me sad 😔
Same. But hey at least they only staged the wreck scene and destroyed the trains once!
You did notice that "no trains were damaged during the filming of this shot"?
All of those beautiful O gauge trains all to waste :(
What a shame...
Ayy, at least it's recycled crash footage every time.
just the one train set. lots of camera angles and takes
Clearly, Gomez doesn't agree with your sentiments.
Ikr? it even sickens me when something like this happens to my n scale layout! 😩
Always loved those are so cool
Don't let this guy anywhere near my layout...
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if gomex asked me if wanna explode the rails i would ask can I do it 15 times? LOL
2:35, isn't that the whistle from Petticoat Junction?
My favorite part for watching the Adam's Family when I was a kid - Hey, reminds me of my last girl friend! TW!
It appears that whern the trains are just going around the track the Sante Fe locomotive is an O27 Alco. However, on the bridge it appears to be an O scale Sante Fe. Looks to be a beat up 2343 because it has side ladders, front grab irons, and real port holes. Also, the back truck is silver. But, tyhe front truck seems to be black?
Growing up, we had that same table the trains are set up on as our dining room table.
I noticed the some of the whistles sound a little like the Hooterville Cannonball.
I believe it is the same whistle just pulled from a stock sound effects library. Being how Petticoat Junction and Addams Family were airing on TV around the same time I wonder if viewers also noticed it was the same whistle
Nice o gauge set wish I could afford a legacy engine
I hate to say it but if my trains only went in circles, I would probably want to blow them up too!!
My dad loved trains and always said he would build a layout in the basement, but he never did.
He did however build me a N scale layout a lot like the one Gomez had. I played with it a lot but always wanted something bigger. When I moved out I started planning my empire.
I started on it twenty years ago and I'm still working / running it. It is HO scale there are almost two hundred switches on it. Seven train yards, it can operate several hundred cars.
As Gomez says "these trains always take my mind off troubles" In fact I think that's what I"ll go do right now.
Its rare that those old lionel trains flew off thanks to their magne-traction
I'd come as a big guy looking forward to the derailment scenes... and it turns out to be the same recycled one every time.
OUCH in childhood.
At least later movies honored the train layout.
8:35 - He wants to make a real train wreck. The guy he's talking to has a funny reaction.
They miss one favorite episode clip of a train wreck right after Gomez makes his wreck Morticia I think she grabs him and says in a joyous tone "Gomez you're the perfect saboteur" that quote had always stayed in my mind...Anybody guess know why that was omitted? I guess that word had been omitted since 9/11.
If you read the description there’s a part 2 with the other 2 episodes that featured the layout. th-cam.com/video/VZ7ghPp-8Bk/w-d-xo.html it’s here at 1:48. And it’s “You’re a born sabateur”
@@richardstrainsandmore thank you Richards think just saw your message now I never got the notification that you left me this notice. I'll check it out thanks very much please take care and stay safe during this pandemic hope we will pull through and be over this catastrophe in so many ways it has been bad. Thanks good luck
Is that a Lional Train set?
0:13 me running my trains :D also what an epic showdown, gp7 vs f3. And didn't they use tubular and super o layouts, you know like switching between different layouts
Lol! And 2:49 is me when I get angry over a locomotive that won’t run! You’re correct they had two different layouts, a 5x9 super O and then a 4x8 031 tubular. Presumably the super O layout got destroyed which is why the second layout debuted
Oh ok, I was wondering why half way through the show the layout switched I thought maybe Gomez needed a new one because he "wrecked all of his trains".
HAHA!! That would’ve been awesome to see Gomez literally blowing up his entire layout then having to build another. Of course all those postwar pieces would’ve been creamed though...
Oh my gosh yes! I could imagine morticia just saying ...it's beautiful darling, ill fetch the children to see I'm sure they'll love it!
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Gomez might like reading railway series book just for the train accidents.
*You know how it is with a small Child in new trains? Does that mean that Gomez is calling himself a child?*
You know I never understood what that quote means either. Does it mean the trains were meant for Pugsley but he took it or like you said is he calling himself a child? Or did John Astin simply flub his line?
@@richardstrainsandmore: *Well, Gomez is sorta like a child or childlike which there's NOTHING wrong with it. I think it's funny that way. And, if you think about it, Morticia does 'baby' him in that way which is cute in their own way. But, I think it's just his way of saying "hey, grown ups can play with things too, just as children can." or .... since Gomez is childlike, then maybe he meant it that way.. Either way, I adore Gomez.*
Anyone else notice the passenger cars behind the F3 aren't Lionel, but appear to be Auburn cars?
Yup you are correct those are Auburn or AMT cars. I have no idea why the production team chose those over Lionels. My only guess is they were cheap used and they knew they would be destroyed during filming
@@richardstrainsandmore The movie is a real mishmash too. The passenger train is a Northern Pacific set, but stop the movie at the right place, you can see the tender says New York Central. Lots of Marx or K-Line stuff in the background too. Opening shot of the steam loco shows a Marx looking tower in the background, a shot of the diesel with a turntable and yard in the background shows two Marx or K-Line cars. the boxcar (With the distinctive Pullman "Bow tie" style roof panels) and the covered twin hopper, plus an old cheapie plastic Marx engine in the background. On top of that, a prewar box style Lionel tender behind a 1980s steamer.
You’ve got a good eye they really did throw a lot of mixed stuff on that layout. It sounds as if they went to a train store/convention and bought used or junked items for background scenes, which might explain why a prewar tender is behind a newer plastic 0-4-0. They used two steam engines, mostly an 8609 and 8606 at the end, in various scenes but kept the 8606’s NYC tender even when the 8609 was shown. I can’t figure out why they mishmashed them either! I actually recently bought an 8606 with correct NYC tender and I’m thinking of reenacting some of those scenes, without blowing it up of course!
They keep using the same explosion over and over lol!!!
Back then, there was no way you could collide trains on same track. Current only went one way. Nowadays you have DCC.
That’s still a problem with DC powered trains but with AC powered O scale (the scale used in the show) the locomotive’s direction is controlled by an E-unit rather than current polarity so technically you can have two trains on the same track going opposite directions, even have them collide head on!
@@richardstrainsandmore Really? Didn't know that.
Oh yeah, can be a problem if you forgot one engine Sitting in the yard when starting a train.... sigh.
There is no problem running two trains against each other on 3 rails AC layout, even loop to turn train around is not a problem. With 2 rails DC, it will short circuit. With 3 rails, positive is in middle rail, therefore no problem to have loops or run trains in different directions..
Petr Beranek So you can do that with the old Lionel trains?
Trish: You have such a way with trains.
Me: Yea in blowing them up but its fun
8:00 I think I've found who's running Amtrak
I'd get bored too with two streamliners, a Geep, and a steamer.
That's an F3, but sometime you can see a pair of O-27 Alco FAs with black trucks running.
@@Greatdome99 All EMD F units look the same to me lol. I'll have to keep an eye out for those FA's.