Boy, I sure am having one tonight. Had a long day, just wanted to watch some trains run. First thing was a toggle switch went bad on the main line. Replaced it. Then, my K-Line coal dump car kept uncoupling on one of the turns. Turn the car around, no problem, turn it back around, uncouples. Weird. Took it off the layout. Put on the working milk car. Broke slide shoe. Dang. Took it off. Getting angry. I need the smell of smoke. Pulled my Williams Berkshire out. Couple times around and a screw falls out of the linkage on the side, lockes up the wheels and derailment. Cleaned up accident. Put on my MTH Norfolk Southern Dash 9. Hit the horn, smoke comes out of the cab and a sound that was not a horn through the speaker.
Must have been the moon and the stars yesterday as I had a couple of minor collisions and of course they were in the tunnel! But still fun[:)]
I think making up consists is more fun than actually running the trains. It’s a good time to just make that switcher move all those cars and get organized. I’m always surprised at how long it takes, time well spent.
SP - try over on the “Model Railroader” forum - lots of HO modellers. Visit the Coffee Shop thread if you feel in need of people to talk to - great bunch of very friendly people there!
Have no fear Dave, the gremlins left your layout and setup camp on mine. I was i y train room for roughly 20 minutes before I pulled the plug. In that time:
my 151 semaphore stuck in the down position (repeatedly)
my 2252 (?) crossing gate stuck in the down position; I’ve ever seen that before, and it took a little effort to get it to go back up.
I had two seperate couplers open up on the same train before I realized the engine sped up. Never saw that before either. Turned out to be a locked wheel on the caboose created the extra tension.
my 145 gateman did an about face; that’s fairly common though, but still annoying.
had two light bulbs on a 4 car passeger train burn out; that wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t the first time those cars were on the rails.
Just posting to let you know that you’re not alone. Granted, it sounds like at least some of your woes are going to cost $ to fix. Hopefully, your layout got it all out its system. Hopefully mine did too.
