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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44 Ouch! I remember when I lost my CNR Mikado. I was 9 at the time, and I had just got a cheap mikado in Canadian National colours. I was trying to see how fast it would go while pulling two coaches up that 2.2% grade on my layout (I think it was plan 48, 101 track plans, Virginia and Trukee) It was going about 130MpH, and it jumped off a trestle,[:O] and plummeted to the concrete floor.[censored][angel] The headlight was bashed in, I lost the feedwater heater, and the boiler seperated from the frame. I kept it in my round house until 2 years ago when i put it in my HUGE dead loco and car pile. SIGH[:(] Matthew Were any of you like that when you were young?[banghead] [/quote] Were? Still am to a degree. I'd never intentionally sent my Kato engines to the floor, but have been known to occassionally send a cheap extra lifelike loco to its doom if I'm needing to let off a little steam. People think those engines that come packaged with the sets well meaning but uninformed people get us for special occassions are worthless...but I say you can get use out of anything. As for accidents...if I have ANY piece of track that has the potential to send a loco to the floor (and I usually do have a couple of loose ends as the layout is ever-expanding) I'm always sure to put a full laundry basket on the floor right at the end...just in case. Distractions are too plentiful to risk not being protected.
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