I have done something silly?

Haven't we all?

Also, give it a couple minutes to soak in before cranking up the smoke. It does help.

I can think of a good friend, who bought a new engine, it wouldn't smoke. Back to the dealer, dealer couldn't figure it out, back to MTH it goes, still no smoke. Turns out it needed smoke fluid....

I also remember at a club show a few years ago, I had attempted to run one of my MTH steamers. Put it on the track, pull it up in DCS, etc, hit start up, nothing. Dead. Try resetting everything, checking wheels on the track, shutting down and restarting transformers, etc. I looked at the engine, after about 15 minutes of troubleshooting, only to see I never plugged the tether in....

No, I never make mistakes like that. I changed the smoke motor three times on an MTH loco with Protosounds, before I noticed that the gasket was bowing downward, fouling the smoke fan. Whatta dummy. 

I had one of my mth steamers runing.A of a sudden the locomotive stared runing odd.Then I noticed that the main conector had came apart.The tether was the only thing holding the locomotive to the tender.While runing a train there was a swith that cause the train to dip.Had to redo some tracks.It runs fine now.I was able to fix it before any damage could be done.

seaboard;

If that's the silliest thing you have done in O gauge trainworld, you are not really in the same league with some of us!

Ya gotta try harder.

Rod

Rod

You certainly got that right.

Well I was always told to start out slow.I,ll work your way down or is it side ways.