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Years ago at my club layout, I received a phone call from work to report a problem to me that I needed to look into. I was on the phone a few minutes and when I returned to the layout, at least two members were packing up their engines and cars and most of the group were upset. When I received the phone call, I turned over my train to a member to run it into the next siding, but my train was following the famous coal train of Ray Brown down a 2% grade. Yes that is the same Ray Brown of the Brown book. He was a wonderful person, but when something like this happened on the layout, he did not take it quietly. My train was a twenty car reefer train with a Santa Fe Texas class 5011 that was weighted to the maximum and the other member rearended Ray's coal train, which knocked every single car of the coal train off the track. It was a mess and no one was talking, just packing up. I was the indirect cause, but had no idea what had happened at the time. Actually, no equipment was damaged and it was just ego, but Ray and I laughed about it the following week as we would meet and eat before the club activities. We had many small disasters over the years, but got over them quickly as we were a close group and enjoyed running the layout.
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