DEALING WITH NEIGHBORS

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4-8-4 UP Northern

If you are at least twelve, then you should start frequenting Teen Railfan Place over on toward the bottom of the forum. I'm one of the regulars there(between bootings).

Hey man!

Is that an invitation to barge in over there, start a few "interesting" threads and create a bit of havoc???

BTW on your sig; I've been running electric trains for 53 years and yet I have never owned a single piece of Lionel stuff.[;)][}:)][:)] As a matter of fact I have never run that three-rail stuff, not even in HO (Märklin and Co.).

[Tom The Brat]

I'm always delighted when the neighbors drop by.



Yes, the drink took a trip around the railroad.

[Anonymous]

If you are at least twelve, then you should start frequenting Teen Railfan Place over on toward the bottom of the forum. I'm one of the regulars there(between bootings).

[Anonymous]

I never have had that problem with my neighbors or thier kids, course I am 14 and I am the youngest in my neighborhood. Plus my garden rr is in the country 15 miles from where I live. Also, my grandpa lives there and ever gun owned by a Ridyolph seems to be stored there.

[Dick Friedman]

I live on a cul-de-sac. All our yards are fenced. If someone's not invited in my yard, they are trespassers. I'd ask them to leave or I'd call the sheriff.
Don't need to do this, however, as I'm open a couple of times a year and neighbors drop by to see what's gone on since their last visit. The kids are all big and well behaved, the grandkids get watched.

They're happy, I'm happy. And we all have fun together working on the RR!

[Anonymous]

glad i live in the boonies the more i read from you all about how the neighbors do your RR
maybe i dont need to go back to the city afterall? best regards, john

[Tom The Brat]

Her attention span is longer than mine[:-^]

[nickinwestwales]

Hi guys,-could be that we are expecting kids to act & think like grown-ups-my 4 year old loves to play with daddy`s trains but has an attention span of about 3 minutes and (like her daddy) can walk across a room & forget what she came in for before she gets there. If she causes a wreck,Its my fault for not supervising her properly (slight wander off-topic but seemed vaguely relevant)have fun,all the best,nick

[Anonymous]

steel rails
Thats a grusome story
well i mean 2 people running 3 trains...
These people did it intentially and have not yet forgiven them (they never said sorry)

[RhB_HJ]

We are lucky, our neighbours take a keen, friendly interest in the GRR.
We also have two dogs in the same yard as the GRR and Huskies having a bit of a reputation works just fine.[;)][}:)][}:)][:D][:D]
By way of explanation, one of the two has a striking resemblance to a wolf, just the looks, not the size.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

kids need to learn how quickly accidents happen, even when you think you are paying attention. I taught my boys by letting them ride the garden tractor(at a very low gear) in my front yard. Once or twice running into trees when looking in another direction taught them both the lesson rather quickly and quite permanently.

Likewise, I'd rather let a kid have an accident due to inattention with an $800 train at a young age than with a car at some older age.

Much depends on the kid, was it deliberate, didn't he think about all he had going on? maybe he needed to understand that he needed to think about more things happening than what was where he was looking! A lot of things we bear in the back of our minds when operating are not automatic with kids, they need to learn them and the need for them; and I maintain its better to learn those lessons at 1:29 than it is 1:1----!

I sometimes get frustrated with my airhead 15 year old grandson, but how else is he gonna learn! He's at the age where the only "important" thing to think about is girls!

Oh well, life goes on! Ain't it great?

[grandpopswalt]

Steel Rails,

As Torby said, the five year old probably didn't do it intentionally. I was told by a person who owns a model railway museum and operating layout that children under six sould not be allowed to play with "scale" LS trains unattended and that they MAY be responsible enough at age twelve. I guess that depends on the individual child but it sounds about right to me.

Walt

[Anonymous]

We put on drinks and snacks for our neighbours from time to time; this helps. Sometimes when the girls are away I'll hire a couple of models from the local modelling agency as well.

Rgds ian

[Tom The Brat]

Best to keep an eye on them. Would also have saved him a bit of grief, as I'm sure he didn't mean to wreck the trains.

Was at the KVRY fall operating session. Mack, age 10, was the engineer and I was conducting. We were waiting at Pin Oak Station waiting for clearance to Seaweed when the railbus 401 came charging down the track into our second coach.

"Special 10, you are cleared to Seaweed."
"Dispatch, this is Special 10. Special 401 just crashed into us."
"That's not possible. 401 is waiting at Redbud."
"Dispatch, he's not waiting there now."

He needed new batteries in his remote. Wasn't the 10-year-old's fault, 401 crashed into the train Mack was driving.

[Anonymous]

Here is a story for you all,

My fathers friend from up north has a Garden Railroad. When I visited him with my father last summer, he handed e a radio controller and told me how to work it. Soon, I Had a USA Southern Pacific Geep pulling about 10 cars around the Garden.

I changed from the Geep to an Aristocraft C-16 pulling about 5 bachmann coaches. I combine, Three coaches, and one obervation.

Well, his neighbor, who he had told me about came over. He was five years old, and very mischevious. Well, he asked him politley to plat trains, and so he gave him a controller. After about an hour, the adults went inside and I went to the bathroom, and left the kid alone.

BIG MISTAKE. When I came out. He took off running, screaming "I didn't do it, I didn't do it".

Well, I went around to the gorge, and the C-16 had flew of the ledge where the trach was situated. with a straight vertical drop, 5 feet below, and it had plowed into the geep, knowking it off the tracks.

The other controller was no where to be found, which was contolling an LGB Colorado and Southern Mogul, pulling about 10 freight cars and a Short D&RGW Caboose. When I found it, It was too late. It had came out of the tunnel, out onto the ledge, and rearended the coaches, sending the first two down to join the Geep and C-16.

Luckily, The Mogul wasn't hurt, nor was his Lake George and Boulder Forney (Not in the wreck) and his Bachmann 10 wheeler. Boy, I have never seen a child cause a bigger accident nor had I heard a person use the F word, the S word, and the D work in one sentance.

He calle the oys father, who yelled so loud, I could hear him as I used the Forney, Mogul and the Ten wheeler to pull the cars placed back on the tracks. The Geep and the C-16 were taken imediatly for damage inspection. Nothing was broken luckily, so that afternoon, I used the Geep to pull a long freight through the railroad. The C-I6 was used on the express, but was replaced by the Mogul with three LGB Passenger Cars.

The Forney took car of some freight, and the ten-wheeler was used for longer freights. All was well, and the boy was never seen by the tracks again.

So the moral of the story is : Never trust a Five year old to run trains alone, especially with tracks that climb 7 feet with straight drop leadges on sides of the track and a straight up wall on the other side.

[markperr]

I personally have had no problems with neighbors but I do have to keep a more critical eye out when I have the ghost train running at Halloween as well as when our club has it's modular set up at train shows.

Mark

[Anonymous]

I have no trouble with neighbours at all, however I do have a lot of people walk behind my home, it is a very good area with a streetscaped road and a few have nmentioned to my neighbours that they have heard sounds that come from my place that they haven't heard in years. One guy even identified my DR Mallet by its sound.

No one has approached me but I am not outside my place much and in it only slightly more.

Rgds Ian

[Capt Bob Johnson]

CSXguy,
Since when do we worry about legalities??? I'm sure TJ would kill to have one!!! He could even lob a few at his CO, pull it back into the tunnel, and put on that innocent grin that any good Sgt. knows how to use!

[Tom The Brat]

Put 'em to work!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by TrainFreak409

QUOTE: Originally posted by highrailjon

Having one of these on your layout might solve the problem.[;)]
(click on pix to enlarge)

I'd like to have a model of the German GUSTAV Cannon.[:D] That'll certainly scare anyone away.[}:)]

What about one that fires scale shells? THAT would be cool! And illegal...

[underworld]

highrailjon Nice rail gun!

BMTRAINS I think someone wise once said......" Neighbors, can't live with them.......not supposed to shoot them!" [:p]

underworld

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

Wow, ya'll have cul-de-sac parties? Sounds like a dead end to me!!!

Sorry, I just can resist the chance to drop a pun!

[tangerine-jack]

Hey Highrailjon, isn't that the rail gun at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD? The one that slings a two ton projectile over 60 miles and has a crew of 200? You know, the one that doesn't really look big in the picture but one road wheel is about 5ft in diameter? The one gun I would steal if I could get it home? The gun that if you actually fired at your neighbor the shock wave from 800lbs of powder inside of danger area echo would blow your own roof off but you would do it any way just to prove a point? THAT gun????
[bow][bow][bow][bow] ohhhmmmm, ohhhmmmmm............

One shot......is quite sufficient.............


(dang, another flashback.........)


[oX)]

[grandpopswalt]

It's your yard, they're your trains and you've made a very large investment of time and money in it. Before you call the cops, you should confront the parents of the offending youngsters and insist that they control their own kids and inform them what you plan to do if they can't or won't.

Walt

[GP-9_Man11786]

In thinking about this subject, it's easy to complain about bad neighbors. However I'm sure many of us have good neighbors too. I do. Friend of my family have a young son, just entered first grade. There's nothing more I love than having himover to see the trains and watching his face light up. My point is take the bad with the good.

[Tom The Brat]

The topic came up in MLS Chat last night. I proposed using a trebuchet to defend the railroad[:D] http://www.tomruby.com/trebuchet.htm

[tmcc man]

maybe i can mount a custom made turret that shoots high velocity powered pain balls at kids, that is disquised. That could actually be a cannon car that is custom made.

[TrainFreak409]

QUOTE: Originally posted by highrailjon

Having one of these on your layout might solve the problem.[;)]
(click on pix to enlarge)

I'd like to have a model of the German GUSTAV Cannon.[:D] That'll certainly scare anyone away.[}:)]

[GP-9_Man11786]

I have ways of getting my neighbors back. One of them was to not even attempt to contain the bamboo that grows in my yard. It's spreading to his yard now.