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The most memorable goof up I was involved in occured at a Train Show on my club's portable show layout. A good friend of mine who was opperating the layout with me was attempting to switch cars in the Industrial Switching area of the pike and was having difficulty getting his locomotive to run properly. Try as he might he couldn't get his locomotive to run more than 2 or 3 scale MPH even with the throtle wide open, obviously there was a short some where but he could not find the source. None the less he continued to opperate his engine despite the slow speed and the electrical problem because after all he was switching and didn't need to go very fast. Anyway, while trying to help my friend issolate the short, I couldn't help but notice an unusual tank car that was among the pieces of rolling stock my friend was trying to switch. It was painted red, white, and blue and labled for "Ollie North Liquid Assets", my friend explained that it was a brass tank car Precision Scale produced that poked fun at the Iran Contra scandal. "A brass tank car? Neat!" I said "can I take a closer look?" "sure" I picked the model up off the track and my friend's switch engine sudenly took off like a rocket! "OWWWWWWW!!!!!!" I screamed as I droped that burning hot tank car with a number of on lookers wondering what the heck was wrong with me. It turned out that one of the trucks on this brass tank car had swivled arround 180 degrees allowing electrical current to pass from one truck, right through the entire car, to the other truck causing the mystery short. By the time I picked up that tanker it was hot enough to burn flesh!!
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