I did! I made 4 brass H/L assemblies with 2 LEDs in each light. Got them painted and installed and they looked great. Applied power and locos ran beautifully and in concert all 8 H/L LEDs blew at once! In all that building and wiring I forgot the resistors!!!! Makes a guy feel pretty dumb!
Well, back to the workbench, good thing LEDs are cheap!
Malcolm
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Nope, never, nada!!
Jay
Are you talking about just today?
Tom
That was my assumption. Truth be told though, it's still early here on the left coast.
Jay
I'll take the 5th.
"You ever do anything really stupid?"
Yeah, I let my wife see the Visa bill that came in after Christmas. 
I was typing a detailed reply when I ran out of room.
Does moving from a home with a 1300 sq ft basement/garage to a 1400 sq ft house count? Grrrrrrrrrrr....
Every Day! Fred
You should use the Evan Design LED's with prewired components, great value and they work.
Do I have to answer this?.....
I did! I made 4 brass H/L assemblies with 2 LEDs in each light. Got them painted and installed and they looked great. Applied power and locos ran beautifully and in concert all 8 H/L LEDs blew at once! In all that building and wiring I forgot the resistors!!!! Makes a guy feel pretty dumb!
Well, back to the workbench, good thing LEDs are cheap!
Malcolm
My list of dumb things would take an entire thread. 
You should use the Evan Design LED's with prewired components, great value and they work.
Dave,
Mine work every time too when I wire them correctly.
You mean like almost running a brand new [real] C30-7 through a derail on the GE test track at Erie?
How far back are we talking here?
Jerry
I don't want to talk about the dumb things I'v done. it'd take years.
ChipR
Ever or in the last five minutes?
NO! Wait a minute? Why is my nose growing??????
Yes, Back in 1973, or thereabouts, a bunch of frat brothers decided to go swimming in the New River. We were students at West Virginia Institute Of Technology, Montgomery WV. We drove to Gauley Bridge at the C&O bridge over the New River. We all (minus 1, he had to drive the car back to wher he would pic us up) walked out onto the bridge and 1 by1 jumped into the river. As soon as I stepped off, I sobered up immediatelly. Yes that was stupid!
Larry
Probably too many times to count, and certainly too many times to tell about.
How much time you got? I don't think there is enough room on these servers....
professionally.
Does buying more trains than you have track to hold them count as dumb, stupid, really stupid or normal stupid?
Now that is a question Bob Eubanks would ask our wives.
HEY! I resemble that remark!
Jerry
How do they say it "Hind sight is 20/20.
Is this just train related, or do I have to write about the rest of my life too?
Is this just train related, or do I have to write about the rest of my life too?
Well, the title does say "really stupid".
Frequently, but always with style and aplomb.
Does trading a fully functional "ZW" for 3 box cars fit in this area.
NO, then I plead the "5th".
Rod
Does trading a fully functional "ZW" for 3 box cars fit in this area.
Rod
Depends on the boxcars!
how about getting married for the second time...shouldve stayed single..
I've never done anything stupid and I've never told a lie!
There was an instance when I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken.
Nope, I'm pretty much purfict!
Simon
Ummm......the real question is have I done anything smart today?????
Usual answer:
No. 
Yes. In 1967, I let the Army teach me how to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I must have landed on my head. Started playing with thrains.
Dick
Uh, yep.
But the statute of limitations has run out on a lot of them.
But not all . . .
EdKing
Yes, but I mostly try not to make the same mistake more than a couple of times (I forget with the years in between the same issues)!
Yes. And no I aint telling.
Some of the things looking back on it was C R A Z Y. I will share one.
The Harpers Ferry Amtrak Station has a little subway below the tracks to a small shelter of sorts. A class mate of mine and I went under there to visit. This was before it was closed to the public.
Unfortunately for us kids a freight was westbound, making speed for the upcoming grades. Less than 10 feet away rolled the very big cars very fast. Shaking the place.
Not where you want to be.
I have a vast ocean of stupidity on which to draw and do so regularly.
We all did in the late 40s and early 50s when we used asbestos furnac e cement as a scenery material.
You mean like claim your in love with a girl you've never met who tells you online that she's dying of leukemia, and then dedicating your play on the football field to "honor her memory?"
No, I don't think I ever have!
- Mike
Well, If we are going to use other stupid people as the "bar", Hey, I'm a geeekneeus.
Back in the early 70's I ordered and bought 4 SD 24s by hallmark sight unseen as familiar with hallmarks Japanese models. Little did I know these were the 1st models to be made in Korea and looked like ****. It has always made me rethink buying anything sight unseen and was a real stumbling block to my intrduction to the way Atlas O does preorder business. At least I saw one Atlas model at a show and was OK with its construction and so have become comfortable with buying sightunseen from them and them only. Got to earn ones business. Now, just wish they could get on with producing models again at the pace we were used to. AS is, it is like brass production.
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