Editor’s Note: We received a lot of great submissions to R&R’s “I’ve Never Seen That Before…” contest, and while we’ve already chosen the winner and two honorable mentions -  which are featured in the Nov/Dec issue of R&R -  some of the other entries were too good to not share. Hence, we’ll be sharing some of them here on the blog in the coming weeks. (See "A Cat Catastrophe" and "Oh, Rats.")

The following submission comes to us from Gerald Lammers of GIP DRS (Indianapolis, IN):

(We had) an 800 square foot basement that had a sump pump failure. It was carpeted so we need to remove the pad. We found that the customer had been collecting model trains. It was set up like a warehouse, with only lanes.

We filled a 16-foot portable storage container with just trains so we could get to the padding. The customer’s two car garage was filled with train items as well.