Here is a story for you all,
My fathers friend from up north has a Garden Railroad. When I visited him with my father last summer, he handed e a radio controller and told me how to work it. Soon, I Had a USA Southern Pacific Geep pulling about 10 cars around the Garden.
I changed from the Geep to an Aristocraft C-16 pulling about 5 bachmann coaches. I combine, Three coaches, and one obervation.
Well, his neighbor, who he had told me about came over. He was five years old, and very mischevious. Well, he asked him politley to plat trains, and so he gave him a controller. After about an hour, the adults went inside and I went to the bathroom, and left the kid alone.
BIG MISTAKE. When I came out. He took off running, screaming “I didn’t do it, I didn’t do it”.
Well, I went around to the gorge, and the C-16 had flew of the ledge where the trach was situated. with a straight vertical drop, 5 feet below, and it had plowed into the geep, knowking it off the tracks.
The other controller was no where to be found, which was contolling an LGB Colorado and Southern Mogul, pulling about 10 freight cars and a Short D&RGW Caboose. When I found it, It was too late. It had came out of the tunnel, out onto the ledge, and rearended the coaches, sending the first two down to join the Geep and C-16.
Luckily, The Mogul wasn’t hurt, nor was his Lake George and Boulder Forney (Not in the wreck) and his Bachmann 10 wheeler. Boy, I have never seen a child cause a bigger accident nor had I heard a person use the F word, the S word, and the D work in one sentance.
He calle the oys father, who yelled so loud, I could hear him as I used the Forney, Mogul and the Ten wheeler to pull the cars placed back on the tracks. The Geep and the C-16 were taken imediatly for damage inspection. Nothing was broken luckily, so that afternoon, I used the Geep to pull a long freight through the railroad. The C-I6 was used on the express, but was replaced
