Nice stories and photos, I don't have any photos of my incident but here it is. This week I stripped and repainted a prewar water tower I have. I reassembled it and placed it back on my layout. This water tower did not have the water spout on so I made one from a flexible plastic straw painted it black and attached a thin diameter copper wire to simulate a chain or rope to raise lower the spout. At the end of the wire I made a loop as a grab for the chain. I then decided the run my SF Super Chief for a lap of two. When the loco passed the water tower it tipped over and started chasing the loco. The B unit and baggage car derailed and the train stopped right before entering my tunnel. What happened was the loop on the wire caught the horn on top of the loco causing the mishap. Being a wire it does not hang straight down and was curved just over the height of the train but unfortunately not the horn. No damage but something I will check before running the trains.
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