Hi all. Being that it is friday the 13th, I thought that it would be fun to tell us your favorite or wierdest model railroading mishap or perhaps superstition. Here's my own:

On my first N-scale layout I had a rather large mountain in one corner. The mountain had a cutout on the side to access the tracks. I was running a large freight with my old Trix Decapod around and around. At one point through the mountain, it reappeared on the other end minus the caboose. I put the train into "emergency" and looked in the mountain to see if it derailed...nothing. I looked in the access hole...again , nothing. The floor maybe?...Nope! I looked around the entire layout, which was not very big at all - it was on a door, and for the life of me I could not find this thing! About ten minutes later though, I noticed movement in the corner of my eyes. It was my cat, an all black one named Freddy. He was running around swatting at something. Yup, you guessed it...the caboose! It must have fallen clear out of the tunnel and the cat saw it as prey. Whatever the case, it was friday the 13th, I do remember and at that moment knew why black cats should not be crossed on that day!!! :-)

Russ