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Good story David. Reminds me a bit of another 'scary electrical' situation from 1954.We had moved to Canada from England,in 1952, when I was nine.I had brought a Trix Twin 3-RAIL 00 AC train set from England, new in 1951, that somehow the shop had sold to my Dad without a transformer, just a rheostat, so it had never run. Anyway, I had a school chum who had a Marx trainset, and he brought over his transformer one Saturday, to try on the Trix. My Dad, God rest his soul, wouldn't let us try it, and claimed we would "ruin" the engine, because it was so much smaller than the Marx. Naturally, we tried it after school one day, and it worked like a charm. Dad wasn't happy to hear of this, particularly because we didn't need the separate rheostat, but he got over it pretty soon. Both my chum and I moved on to H0 just a couple of years later. regards / Mike
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