Funniest MRR Goof Up?

[BNSFNUT]

I glued a freight car to the rails once.
I did a quick repair job on broken detail without removing it from the rails. I must have got some of the CA that I used on the rails.
Oh well it need new wheels anyway[sigh]

[johncolley]

Having the skills and ability to do things doesn't always mean we should do them. For example, I built a great operating layout with yard and service on the lower level and a nice switching town on the upper, connected by a neat 24"radius helix with a curved set of trestles at the top like the Keddie wye only one wood, the other steel. It was great EXCEPT you had to be a contortionist to get in and out of the room due to the helix and duckunder for the trestles. Well, shoot, tear out time! I'm getting too old and stiff for the contortions, as are all my visiting friends.

[Javern]

ahhhh way back when i was painting my foam havin a good ol time and took a break and when i came back the foam was looking something like the grand canyon in places, turns out i was using some paint that ate foam. Would have been ok if I had happened to be modeling a lunar landscape. Live and learn, went back to Lowes and bought a new sheet of foam.

[Anonymous]

hey jeff, you made some of the same mistakes (but a little different)
I also just did an upside down controller. Though I was controlling two helpers on the back of a manifest. The lead loco derailed on a misthrown switch which derailed the first couple of cars. Went to stop the helpers but ended up putting them full throttle, pushing the first few cars onto the basement floor.

Onto my paint mishap. I had a can of paint beneath the layout. I accendently kicked it spilled it all over the floor. But it gets worse, i didn't notice i did this and ended up stepping in the paint and tracking it all around the layout.

The only damage was a couple of couplers broke and sky blue shoe prints on old carpet and a pairof shoes that are now used for mowing. no big loss in the grand scheme of things.
Andrew

[Anonymous]

Let's laugh at ourselves a bit here - tell us some of your biggest layout building errors, including really dumb things.

I think my worst - among many - is spilling paint on the layout room carpet, and scubbing so hard and fast to get it out that I tore a ligament in my finger.

A close second includes soldering below the layout, and sitting directly below the solder joint, allowing some to drip right into my lap......

In the operating department, I once inadvertantly turned the throttle upside down, so as I was gliding into my stub end passenger terminal, when I thought I was cutting power, I really revved it up to full throttle, tossing the loco over the end of the layout when it hit the bumper. The oympic judges did give the F-7 a 9.3 on its half gainer swan dive.....

And you?