Do your neighbors complain about your trains?

[FJ and G]

Noise in early a.m. and smoke?

I had this problem in my townhouse and condo. I had to turn down the smoke and volume or get arrested for disturbing the peace.

I'm in a single-family house now and have had run-ins with neighbors over my loud construction noises.

I try to stop all activities at around 8 p.m.

Dave Vergun

[laz 57]

Nope, down in the basement neighbors are too far away.
laz57

[webenda]

No. Out here in the desert the houses are farther apart. The neighbors construction and music are as loud as mine, so what could they say?

My wife on the other hand...

Wayne

[csxt30]

Hello, just had to put in my 2 cents! Everything today seems to affect our neighbors,but it sounds like you got everything under control. I've seen the R/C plane guys loose all kinds of flying sites either to housing or noise. One club lost a field cause a guy said it scared the deer away in his nearby woods. Be careful you don't scare your neighbors dog or something, seems like some people are looking for anything today! Thanks for reading, John

[FJ and G]

John,

I actually saw a fight break out down the street a ways (while walking my BB the beagle).

2 neighbors from townhouses were getting into a physical altercation over one of them deciding to race R/C cars back and forth in the road in front of the townhouses. They were actually pretty noisy but it was in the afternoon.

I walked away quickly so my poor, innocent BB wouldn't have to see the battle-royal.

There's a lot of target shooting in the woods near my house that's very noisy but apparently no one has been able to stop the sound. I hear a lot of automatic (AK-47 gunfire), and occasional dynamite blasts. I'm guessing that they are trying to blow some of the beaver dams on Broad Run. When the dynamite goes off, BB the beagle flies into the air. Beagles are very sensitive to loud noises.

[Roger Bielen]

What are neighbors? Are those the lights I see through the woods after the leaves drop? Seriously, when someone built behind me, about 200 yds. away, I did stop target shooting in that direction.

[cnw1995]

Wow, Dave, sounds like a free-fire zone. The houses are close together here - but there's a park close by. . . R/C cars are sure ubiquitous zipping around the driveways. We usually get the 'garage band playing too loudly ' or 'someone's ripping lumber in their garage at 2 am' kind of issues - though last year some anonymous neighbor complained to animal control about my dog barking - I'm usually pretty sensitive to this... It was more a form of petty harassment. Oh well. Not worth getting too excited about.

[Anonymous]

Thank heaven I am in our own house with 150 feet on either side with just our lot and my trains are in the basement.
I have had people get upset if I do not answer the phone as I can;t hear it with the trains running. I tell them to call before 6 pm and there will be no problem. It is sort of a built in phone pest protection. My basement phone does not ring on purpose.
Dave.

[Anonymous]

They can hear my monte carlo from a ways away [;)]

Also, I have a Nathan I hook up to an air comp and blow sometimes, thyre not too fond of that

[macdannyk1]

Nope, they don't complain about my trains, but they do complain about the UP's trains. We've got a mainline with lots of grade crossing about 1/2 mile away, and an over-zealous engineer who loves to lay on the horn, especially late at night. So, my trains have absolutely no chance of annoying anybody. :)

[Anonymous]

Here in New Jersey, our current speedways were built with no housing near the area. Now there are houses built near the track and the people who live their complain about the track, even though they were irresponsible to notice the problem when buying the house. There was a legislation proposition to restrict the tracks in New Jersey, this would've made it so that they would eventually run them out of buisiness. It wasn't passes luckily. These people don't get that the speedway was around for a long time.

[tjsprague]

Some of the wives complain that I'm convincing their husbands to buy trains :-)

[spankybird]

I live close enought to the real tracks that my neighbors can't tell the differance if its me or the real trains.[(-D]

[Anonymous]

Me too Tom. I live very close, about a block away from the nearest tracks. I like listening too the signals that the engineer is blowing as I lay in bed.

I remeber when the 261 came to Fondyabout 5 years ago, and I heard it whistle in the night! Man, do steamer make noise(but a beutiful noise it is!) WOOOOOOOOO

[cnw1995]

I'd like to hear that Nathan ... and Monte Carlo, Chris. One of my former neighbors was a long-haul trucker and had some serious air-horns on his car. The UP is about 3 miles or so away but some nights I can hear the freights go by .,, a great sound. Illinois is still whistle (horn) ban country...

[Buckeye Riveter]

In our neighborhood, running the lawn mower before 8:00am is a no-no, but any noise I make with the trains is drowned out by the next door neighbor's kids loud stereo in his Mustang.

[Anonymous]

I've lived in a condo for several years and haven't had any complaints to date! Even when I took my next door neighbor down to my city's "Civilian complain" mediation depatment for his loud and obnoxious late night parties.(seriously!) He said he has never heard my trains! (I suspect he may be a little deaf! LOL)

[tgovebaker]

Here is San Francisco, I try to get my early morning operating done while the CatTrain commuters are moving in and out of the city. That way, my diesel horns, muffled by the garage, don't sound any different from the those on the Genesis locos on their way to or from San Jose.

[tgovebaker]

Um, that was supposed to say "CalTrain", not "CatTrain". That's a whole 'nother story....

[Buckeye Riveter]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dtpowell

I've lived in a condo for several years and haven't had any complaints to date! Even when I took my next door neighbor down to my city's "Civilian complain" mediation depatment for his loud and obnoxious late night parties.(seriously!) He said he has never heard my trains! (I suspect he may be a little deaf! LOL)

Good to see someone from Cincinnati on the forum. Now the whole state is covered from north ot south.

[zwbob]

No complaints here. The trains are in the basement. Since the house was all original (built in 1973) they probably think all the sawing is for home repairs. We bought the house in October 2003 and my wife and I remodeled the whole place in 6 weeks.

[Anonymous]

If my neighbors did complain, I would move. End of story. Life is too short to waste your time living around a bunch of phony LOSERS.

[Jim Duda]

QUOTE: Good to see someone from Cincinnati on the forum. Now the whole state is covered from north ot south. (Buckeye)

One would think that would be enough to keep Chiefie from invading your great state - let's keep our fingers crossed! Poor Laz...

[1688torpedo]

Do the neighbor complain.? Nah! My trains are in the Box as I've no layout yet. Anyway the CSX & Norfolk Southern make enough noise for everyone to enjoy in the Neighborhood( the Tracks are only a quarter of a mile away) [:D][8D][:)][;)] As a result, the people around me probably would not notice any noise from my Trains..........Keith

[Bluecometk]

My neighbors are a 1/4 mile away I don't know them, I have only seen them 2 times in 8 years. They know IM here though. I have two race cars that I run sometimes and I blow my steam whistles on occasion. I also partake in varmit control from time to time but I have never had any problems.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cnw1995

I'd like to hear that Nathan ... and Monte Carlo, Chris. One of my former neighbors was a long-haul trucker and had some serious air-horns on his car. The UP is about 3 miles or so away but some nights I can hear the freights go by .,, a great sound. Illinois is still whistle (horn) ban country...

Ill see if I can make a movie up for you, the SS is away for the winter, but when she comes out, she'll reSSurected!

[Anonymous]

Nope my wife did, she is now the ex-wife!

[jonadel]

With all the barking dogs and loud car stereo's I can't imagine anyone complaining about toy trains. HOWEVER, since I do work with the public part time I can imagine someone complaining but whatever you do, there's no way you are going to please everyone 100% of the time. During turkey and deer season I gave my neighbor permission to hunt on our property....... Sunday morning at 6:40 a 12 gauge shot gun blast will serve as a wake up call when it's about 50 yards from the house, and yes she was shooting the other way[:D]

Jon

[Anonymous]

Hello All: At my old house I had an elderly gentleman as a neighbour who became a dear friend to my family, I also had other neighbours who could be nasty to the kids about the RC cars, street hockey etc. The Elderly friend straightened out the nasty people by telling them " When you can't hear the sound's of children & people enjoying life you had better start to worry" Regards Steve

[Anonymous]

My neighbors are to LOUD to hear anything going on around my house.