Engineer-Joe posted:Stuff like that has me pulling my hair out because the grandson just wants to run everything all at once. I stop to look at why and he's already on the fifth or sixth train. He finally pushed me too far one day and I stopped everything. We must have run around 25 different trains. Six engines went down and I had enough. He wanted more!
Sounds like a serious situation! 
Totally agree though, engines stopping when they shouldn't just really kills the illusion for me. Hence this thread. The keepalive is a great option to have available to help with that, although it is really my third line of defense, after trackwork and engine continuity.
