Giant cat derails morning passenger train.
All equipment survived and the cat escaped unscathed untill I get ahold of him.
Harold
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That's what happens when you go with the cheaper, generic cat food. 
It needs to be a fat red cat. A few years ago, one of the cats took out a 254e and a long string of cars. With latch couplers the whole train usually goes over. Did not get a picture of that one.
Harold
I do not need a cat for my "problems":
I can manage well enough on my own! 
Note that my cat was scared of the trains and would run off if I moved them.
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I thought I was the only one with a layout on my floor! I'm glad to see I'm not alone!
You guys must all be young..... because for many of us the major problem with a floor layout is "getting up off the floor".
Young at heart, old in joints. I'm looking forward to something not quite so 'challenging'.
That's not a problem running on the floor but a problem having a cat as a pet. They can derail trains on elevated layouts, too.
What, me worry?
Watch that cat hair too. Seen it get wrapped around the gears and wheels.
@Putnam Division posted:You guys must all be young..... because for many of us the major problem with a floor layout is "getting up off the floor".
Jerry
@Putnam Division posted:You guys must all be young..... because for many of us the major problem with a floor layout is "getting up off the floor".
I’ve found that getting down there ain’t no fun either
No way I could have a layout on the floor with my back, legs, and knee problems. It's no fun trying to get down to the floor to pick up something or needing using my rollator walker seat to get my arms on it to boost me back up off the floor. Easier to buy $10 reacher grabbers with rubber grip pads in the pharmacy at Walmart to pick up anything off the floor. My wife and I each have one by our recliners, one in the kitchen, one by my workbench, and one by my layout. They certainly come in handy. It's hard enough to get down to do wiring under the layout. I use a store bread rack with plywood screwed onto the top of it and a couple pillows held on by velcro to cushion my back when having to do wiring under there. The caster wheels on the bread rack make it much easier to move around than having to crawl on the floor.
I have a 6x11 floor layout and have used seldom this year due to issues of getting down then back up. I’ m 75 so its not fun anymore, especially if you want to change out cars or engines. Of course I just pressure washed my patio then on my hands and knees cleaned up the joints and put more polymeric sand in between the pavers. Knee pad was mandatory. Got to stay active!
Yes I've done the same. Ditto.
Bumping my head working under the layout became such a problem I bought a head guard that fits in a baseball cap. I wear the cap backwards.
