DEALING WITH NEIGHBORS

[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

[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

[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?

[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.

[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)

[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

[Tom The Brat]

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

[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

[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]

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.

[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).

[Tom The Brat]

I'm always delighted when the neighbors drop by.



Yes, the drink took a trip around the railroad.

[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.).