Sometimes you just have to laugh at your self!

I've been there. lol At least it was nothing major!

I think everyone would have to own up to doing something like that.

Thumbs up that she's working now.

That's better than the opposite, having it running fine testing without the shell and then going dormant when you put the shell back on!

Well, at least you have a sense of humor.  That is funny.  Been there done that, sorta.

Rick

I call them Brain Farts !!!!!!!!!

Not as "entertaining" as your exercise (really, really funny - and completely understandable), but just yesterday I got an old-ish MTH SD9 out of the box. Trying

to decide whether or not to sell it. Took a photo or two.

I got it years ago as a PS1 basket case (previous-owner-caused), and had Weaver convert it to Train America TMCC, as I had not yet started doing that myself.

Put it on the track and could not get it to answer any number on the cab, combinations

thereof, or 1. Try same numbers again (a bad mental sign). I began to fear that it was broken. More number tries...then, the Voice of Reason spoke: just re-program a number into it, you idiot.

I did. It ran. Well. I'm keeping it. It's number 14, like on the cab. (I had tried 14, and

I do believe that the radio board "lost" the number while in boxed storage for years,

but I dunno.) 

Here's one.  Did some service on a loco.  Put it on the track, fired up the transformer ------ nothing.  Took the engine apart, again checked everything on the bench, worked perfectly.  Put it back together, fired up the transformer again ------- nothing.  Was about to begin to throw things, when I spotted the lock-on ------- disconnected.  How it happened, well train gremlins is all I could think of.  Reconnected the lock-on, everything worked fine.  But, half a day had gone by, and I really, really felt stupid.  So stupid, in fact that this is the first time i ever mentioned it to anyone.  True story.  Bob S.