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Back when I was a kid, I had a 3' x 6' oval that was my first layout. The track plan had been published. I think it was called the "Pine Tree Central". Anyway the track ran right at the edge of the plywood (UGH) layout. One day I put every car I had into making up a train. The Loco was just past the center of the u-turn at one end of the layout and the caboose was a like distance past the on the other end. As I powered up this monster train, it started to pull some cars off the track and sent others wobbling. I had to make a quick choice as to what to catch. I caught the loco and watched my beautiful 200 tom crane car dive over the side to the floor. It was a nicer model than any I've seen on the market in HO today. It had working "Buckeye" trucks and the Pulleys on the ends of the main arms contained 3 sheeves each. The main hook had 3 or 4 sheeves as I recall. The car was made of potmetal and a lot of it got broken. It took me a lot of years to get it all fixed, but the laqst time I looked at it, one of the trucks had disinterated with age. This was some time proir to 1955. I wish now I had caught the car instead of the loco. Oh well, live and learn. After that incident, my dad made a sheetmetal tray all around the layout so no pieces ever went on the floor again.
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