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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TEFFY Before I had the safety switches in to create a dead spot at the drawbridge on my layout my Grandaughter drove a Proto E8/9 with eight Walthers passenger cars over the edge and onto the floor. I CRIED . The proto and most of the cars were junk!! [/quote] That's why little shouldn's be allowed to operate your expensive varnish! I feel your pain. My most expensive blunder had to be my first layout. We put close to $1000 on it and it turned out to be a mess! The benchwork warped with humidity, trains ALWAYS derailed at a switch that was about half and inch from the layout's edge, there was a slanted 3% grade (not superrelevated, slanted!), the ballast would sometimes make trains jump off the tracks, the switches just didn't work, in other words, it was a mess!
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