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MICE and VERMIN hiding out in tunnels

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Posted by railroadnut675 on Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:48 PM
Stonewall Jackson ripoff ......
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Posted by CTValleyRR on Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:58 PM

I never said I was original.  Why waste a good thought by consigning it to the dustbin of History?

 

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Posted by railroadnut675 on Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:42 PM

DUSTBIN OF HISTORY??!!! How could you say such a thing???!!!

 P.S. I think the Lhs has a snowplow

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Posted by GTX765 on Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:42 PM

I once lived in a basement apartment and got invaded by the great killer mice! They pushed me too far when the raided my precious lucky charm cereal. Never disturb a man during breakfast. I poured a bowl and there was dark tapered "charms" floating in the milk. I was so Censored [censored] that i went and bought the basic traps. I used cheese and the Iraqi ninja mice took the cheese with out a scratch. So I upgraded the bait to the golden chalice to all mice. Peanut Butter! I emptied the traps twice from the dead foul thieves and my lucky charms were never desecrated again.

 I had a large wolf spider waiting at the station on my layout trying to get a ride to Memphis on the Southern Tennessean. He was removed by Shop-Vac security.

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Posted by CTValleyRR on Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:58 AM
 railroadnut675 wrote:

DUSTBIN OF HISTORY??!!! How could you say such a thing???!!!

 P.S. I think the Lhs has a snowplow

I never said any such thing!  I only typed it. Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by railroadnut675 on Monday, February 18, 2008 10:06 AM
Touche
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Posted by railroadnut675 on Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:40 PM
OK,OK back to business
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Posted by gthomp10 on Saturday, February 23, 2008 10:24 AM
 Packer wrote:

How do you get geckos off the ceiling???

If you have a steady hand, 357 Hollow Points work well for me.

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Posted by ronmcc on Friday, April 11, 2008 7:58 PM
Pet Boas and Pythons really like mice, rats, cats, small yappy dogs etc. Even when they get larger they have been known to eat man. (Don't get any ideas if your going through a messy divorce).
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Posted by railroadnut675 on Friday, April 11, 2008 8:14 PM

Perfect,

I can get my neighbors annoying chihuahua, AND the guy dating my girlfriend. Little sister a possibility.

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Posted by alfadawg01 on Friday, April 11, 2008 8:23 PM

 railroadnut675 wrote:
I have now encountered rodent problems.

Hmmmm....you obviously haven't watched "Caddyshack"......

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Posted by eaglepass on Friday, April 11, 2008 8:24 PM
I once ran over a mouse learking in one of my tunnels, he came screaching out of the tunnel minus a tail.  I cleaned the blood off the wheels and everything was OK.  I think he spread the word because I have not seen another since.  Lizards yes but mice no.  I do however sound the whistles loud and clear the first time around the mainline of every operating session.
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Posted by Packers#1 on Saturday, April 12, 2008 1:41 PM
 railroadnut675 wrote:

Perfect,

I can get my neighbors annoying chihuahua, AND the guy dating my girlfriend. Little sister a possibility.

I thought a 12-gauge was the best solution.

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Posted by easyaces on Saturday, April 12, 2008 2:12 PM
Sorry guy's, I just gotta say this ! Could it be somewhat hilarious to be running a train through a tunnel/mountain area on your layout and out pops a mouse scared out by a loco ! All kidding aside, I would imagine its quite disturbing. Hope you all get to solve that problem!
MR&L(Muncie,Rochester&Lafayette)"Serving the Hoosier Triangle" "If you lost it in the Hoosier Triangle, We probably shipped it " !!
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Posted by Packer on Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:51 PM

to thosee thinking of using a fast locomotive with something stuck on the front, I found something that might be faster that the Athaern F7s and LL stuff. My U28B is insanely fast, at 1/2 throttle it will go faster than all of my other locos.

Now to get that athearn rotorary plow and make the blades spin faster for the ultimate tunnel clearing combo.

Vincent

Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....

2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.

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Posted by TheK4Kid on Saturday, April 12, 2008 10:40 PM

I use a small portable tank sprayer and spray all around my foundation every 3 months with an anti insectiside, and little critters like spiders and even mickey mouse doesn't like the stuff!
I bought it in the lawn and garden section at Walmart

 But then again, we have a lot of neighbors with 4 legged "meows" that keep the neighborhood cleaned up. 

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