My grandson Josh,5 called me and said his HO Bachmann Gordon Express has a problem. It seems that his father, while trying to re-rail Gordon and the passenger cars, set Gordon in a lake made of the "clear water" material. As things go where little people live, a ruckus began with the other grandson, 2. My son went to straighten that up and it taking some time forgot about Gordon in the lake.
The next day my son passed by the layout and saw Gordon embedded in the lake ! He said it took some effort to get the locomotive out without breaqking anything. He made the layout some 4 months ago and followed the directions for the clear water material when buiding the lake - thin layers allow it to set up before addind another layer. The lake seemed to be "hard" to the touch, but perhaps it was only the top layer
- I don't know.
However the problem of cleaning up Gordon remains. The locomotive runs, but not as well as before, and seems to squeak occasionally.
I have told him to stop running the train until it gets cleaned up, but Kosh still wants to use it because neither Thomas nor Percy can pull the train as good as Gordon.
HELP, please.