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I almost had a sad event. Will relate it here, b/c I'm sure everyone has seen the cartoons and moveis/tv shows when a car or truck or whatever "almost" goes over the cliff, and the vehicle is balanced rather precariously, ready to fall if anyone makes a wrong move or breaths funny.... I had just replaced my MRC DCC control with a Digitrax... My dad had brought over a couple of new Proto A/B units. I installed a decoder in the A unit, programmed the address and placed it on the mainline. I gave the loco some throttle, but forgot that I had thrown turnout #3 to go up the dead end siding... The dead end of the siding ending with one of the Atlas plastic rail bumpers about 1" from the edge of the layout. Well, that loco went flying up the siding, which is only about 2' long, and I cut the throttle back down to 0... The loco barrelled into the bumper, and sent it flying across the room. The loco ended up half on and half off the layout, swaying back and forth like a teeter-totter :) All I could think of was how po'd my pop would have been if I busted up his brand new locos... As npr765 said, no dents, but lesson learned!
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