Gomez Addams Train Wreck Tribute

A couple of months ago, someone sent me a comment about one of my videos with a bridge.

“Now you can blow up the bridge, like Gomez Addams.”

I had not watched the 1960’s version of the Addams Family enough to be familiar with those train wreck scenes. Once I saw the compilation, the wheels started turning and I came up with the idea for the tribute video.

The Gomez Addams layout is O-gauge. There are two separate layouts used in the filming and sometimes both layouts are used in one scene. One layout uses all metal O-gauge track and the other uses track with sleepers. Take a look at this scene and notice how the layout completely changes track style. Aside from the different style of track used, one layout has a figure eight in the middle and the other does not.

These episodes were filmed in the mid 1960s, long before anyone could “pause” TV and look at things closely. They also used the same explosion footage in every episode. The first was this one, when Gomez and an official from the school blow up the bridge on the track. You can see the faces of both men.

Later, the same explosion is shown, but with the faces cropped out. In one frame you can still see the clothes of the two men, even though Morticia is in this scene with Gomez.

The explosion is repeated, with Morticia in the scene again.

Since there were multiple layouts, I created one that had a bridge over a pair of turnouts connecting the inside loop to the outside loop. The bridge is part of a middle loop.

The SCARM file can be downloaded here.