DEALING WITH NEIGHBORS

[Anonymous]

Today I am sitting at home and a kid rings the doorbell wanting me to play
I said wafter awhile so HE tries to climb in the windows
I l;ock and he seems to go
here his voive and come outside
Evidently I forgot to unplug the power pack and there he was with his brother the engine was derailed on the trestle and the COaches were leaned vertically aginst a tree trunk
It seems there are so many stupid kids LIKE ME these days who cant not keep of someone elses "Toy"
Oh well

[GP-9_Man11786]

My neighbors are annoying too. One of the flooded a section of my track and the other's kids keep throwing their ball over the fence and wrecking scenery. You've got to wonder where the parents are. If I had done that when I was a kid (which wasn;t too long ago), my dad would have gave me something to cry about.

[railroadyoshi]

Be glad you only have to deal with it on your GR.
At a culdesac party the kids almost destroyed all of my trains.
I feel for ya.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

I have neighbors who stomp on the track and others who poop all over the place! Seems that Mr. Remington is the only person those deer listen to! Groundhogs, raccoons, and possums (along with the occaisional skunk & blacksnake) get a seranade from Mr. Ruger! Keeps the turkey buzzards happy!

[tmcc man]

i cannot stand people like that. when i put mine in, i will make sure that i add something extra to prevent any damage from other people. At the Morris arboreuteum, kids climb on the rocks, and sometimes pu***rains off the bridges. I have to sometimes pick up the engine or car, and luckily they have not been ndamaged.

[tangerine-jack]

One of the side effects of "civilization" I guess. I'm too much of a nut case for any of my neighbors to even think about doing anthing. Once I even got accused of forcing people to move out of the area, OK, I'll let everybody think that [}:)]

My best advise is to put up a fence, out of sight-out of mind (or "invisible and insane" as translated into Arabic). Good luck!



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[Anonymous]

I live in a cul-de-sac and the neighbors haven't bothered me at all. My layout sits back off the road and I have a pile of gravel that hides it from view. I even have a swimming pool that noone seems to know is there. I can play with my trains in utter privacy.

[Anonymous]

I have a fenced in yard and a small dog and the next door neighbor's children (girl) thru rocks at my MTH Challenger last year, the children are still not even school age.

[Train 284]

Those types of people make me so mad! Luckily I have no problems, my layout is in the backyard, fenced backyard. I think some of you guys should have a talk with some of these kids and their paretns because if you dont, I will! hehe!

[Capt Bob Johnson]

tmccman,
Another example of spoiled kids raising spoiled rotten kids, or parents not parenting - all brought on by Dr. Spock and his "Don't spank the little buggars , you'll hurt thier phscye Bullstuffing!"

[vsmith]

" Good fences make good neighbors"

[highrailjon]

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

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Bob Johnson

tmccman,
Another example of spoiled kids raising spoiled rotten kids, or parents not parenting - all brought on by Dr. Spock and his "Don't spank the little buggars , you'll hurt thier phscye Bullstuffing!"

Big! [#ditto]

[Chompers]

None of my neighbors do that stuff, then again the only kid my age in the neighborhood has a train too so...

All the other neighbors always ask how the train is doing and i tell them it's almost done. for 2 years now. 1 step forward 1 and a half backwards.

[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.

[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.[}:)]

[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.

[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

[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.

[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

[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.........)


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[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!

[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]

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...

[Tom The Brat]

Put 'em to work!

[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!

[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

[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]

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.

[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.