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 Posted - August 09 2014 : 8:33:36 PM
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New thread? Post your favorite disasters here...
1. Be careful about subterranean track. Can you reach it? Can you see the train?
2. This train was pitched by an open turnout placed in the far corner under a
mountain. Never place a turnout under terrain where you can't see it.
I like to have kilt mysef digging out these two.
3. 
Keep It Simple, Stupid. We got shorts that we could never find. Two rheostats had to be
decomissioned because we could never find the short. If the chief electrician
ever vacates the scene, we are in a whole lot of trouble.
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 8:50:42 PM
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#4, Access hatches and panels for those tunnels and hard to reach areas!
" Heck with counting 'em rivets, TRAINS ARE FOR FUN! Not called the Mad Scientist for nothing either!"
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 9:02:52 PM
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I've got one! 5. Connect your layout sections properly in terms of electrical connection and the actual connection of the track.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 9:10:47 PM
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OH my goodness. That is a nightmare. 
This is why I like manual throws...pretty much manual everything. I can't even imagine how you would start to find a short in that mass of wires. I'd be tempted t rip the whole wad out and start over!
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 10:40:02 PM
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Here is how not to ever build a Layout.
Regards, John
Delay is the deadliest form of denial <> Junior
Edited by - JRG1951 on August 09 2014 10:41:09 PM
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 10:50:33 PM
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Thank you JRG1951. I haven't had a good laugh like that
in ages!
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 10:56:22 PM
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4. Dare I mention? This DCC unit cost the club $1500 about ten years ago and was used
once. It has a manual that is about 87 pages long. It is so complicated no one has
used it since it was installed at great expense. This might go under the KISS heading.
To quote Winston Churchill: "Democracy is the worst form of government
there is, but it is the best we have."
Edited by - Chops124 on August 09 2014 10:57:37 PM
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 11:02:23 PM
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Chops on the bright side, it's a very cool wreck with the boxcar hanging by the coupler. Hope nothing was damaged with the locos?
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 11:03:53 PM
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Never thought about access hatches and panels before. That's a good one.
Oh, wait- let me show you what genius access panels we have and
how easy they are to reach...Check back in a few days.
This will be good for a laugh.
Anyways, I am trying to develop some external grants to re-roof
this old club, repaint the exterior. We'll see...
If perchance, my grant proposals actually go through, I will apply for
additional grant money to, as JNXT suggested, rip out the wiring...and
everything attached to it and start up an entirely new club trackplan from
scratch using simplified wiring, among other things...
Lucky for me no one at the club reads the Tyco Forum, but I.
Hey, if the Pentagon can spend $1000 for a crescent wrench...
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Posted - August 09 2014 : 11:17:21 PM
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quote:Chops on the bright side, it's a very cool wreck with the boxcar hanging by the coupler. Hope nothing was damaged with the locos?
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â August 09 2014Â :Â 11:02:23 PM
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 It kinda looked like one of those bizarre train wrecks from one of those really old movies or TV shows.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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