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BIG MONEY accident today on my brass Engine!!
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Good evening everyone I had an awful day today and feel the need to share my bad experience where one of my brass engines was pratically destroyed. Ok so I own a handfull of Overland Ho engines but I have saved up for each one and worked hard for them for the record. I was MUing two Union Pacific SD70ACes and a UP SD70M flared engine in the front. I was going round and round the layout for a while and had to run to a phone call in which I had to lift up the gate for the layout. I went upstaires and I really thought that I stopped the engines but as I ran back down with the phone in my hand I witnessed the first engine which was the SD70M going over the layout onto the cement floor which was 48" high!!!! The second one was on its way down right behind it and landed onto that one!!! The third one was heading next but I was able to grap it in mid air befre it hit the floor. I was in shock and really pissed. Both the SD70M flared engine and a UP SD70ACe were pratically destroyed!! The metal was warped and bent up to hell on both of them. It is absolutely not repairable!!! I am so upset since the SD70M I just recently got about two months ago and the SD70ACe I got about 4 months ago. I have four SD70ACe left to be destoyed by murphys law and it seems like it is just a matter of time before they get it too. This is the first time ever I had an accident with any trains and devastating. I have some plastic engines and I wish it were one of them instead of twpo brass ones. I know what happened is I must have put the controller down on the top and it fell of onto the medium or fast forward button and it had enough power to start going. There is no warranty for stupidity. now there is no way to repair them I am positive of that if you see them. Pieces came off that I didnt know exsisted too!! The paint on them was scratched badly too. The SD70M resulted in the most damage since it hit first and was hit by the ther engine afterwards. I tried to place them back on a straight piece of track and the trucks will not even line up and are visually way off. <br /> <br />Well I just wanted to vent my pain of the day to some people who can understand train issues since my wife just laughed at me and said better luck next time. She laughed all day long and I told her I was replacing them and it will cost about $700-800 a piece and her laughed turned into a pissed off look. Oh well right. What a day!!!
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