I want to KILL my cat!!!

[Tracklayer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by loathar

We must have had a big wind blow up the other night and I must not have latched my train building door all the way. Woke up in the morning to see the door blown open all the way. No big deal, right? WRONG!!! I walked in to see most of my rolling stock laying on it's side all over the layout. Locos ALL knocked over, buildings moved out of place, and to my horror, my brand new Spectrum Dash8 laying on the cement floor with several of it's parts scattered about. Trying to figure out what happened, I looked at my tunnel portal to see my cat sleeping inside the mountain on top of two trains she had knocked over.AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kitty got her first flying lesson! Had my pistol right there. REALLY wanted to shoot her but I didn't.
She is permantly banished from the train room.
Couldn't have picked on one of my crappy Tyco or LL locos.HAD to be the new Dash 8!!! All in all it took the fall pretty well. All the parts popped right back on. It hit right on the rear light. Dinged the paint pretty bad, put a little crack in the dynamic break houseing and the light doesn't work anymore.
I should have shot her![xx(][xx(][xx(][:(!][:(!][:(!]

I'm sincerely sorry to hear the bad news loathar. Hope you get everything put back like it was - and forgive the cat for being a cat...

I personally don't allow my cat or any other animals anywhere near my train room because of the risk of hair getting into my locos.

Tracklayer

[Anonymous]

Look what I found from last year while going back through old pages...

Posted: 30 Oct 2004, 01:21:39 Quote


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I built a around the room,20x20ft. -mostly 30'"deep layout,about 56" off the floor.I placed much of the track to the rear of the layout with scenery and structures in the foreground.I now have a hard time seeing my train when switching industries, cleaning track is a bear and CARFULLY reaching over the scenery is difficult.I can't reach ground throws so I had to go with switch machines.
I learned that clean track,correct weight , quality trucks &metal wheelsets and using the same brand of couplers(I use all Kadee) go a long way towards trouble free operation...What can I learn from your experiences?
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Posted: 30 Oct 2004, 02:34:52 Quote
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If you have a cat, keep it OUT of your train room or near your layout. After letting him sit next to layout, I always found he would somehow manage to jump on the table somehow when I'm not looking. He will derail the train, walk on the scenery, knock over the telephone poles, etc.
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twhite Posted: 30 Oct 2004, 11:19:14 Quote


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Amen to cats. Love 'em, but boy, can they find the darnedst times to decide to get affectionate when you're running the train. I have a 23lb Maine Coon cat that thinks the cabooses on my trains are her own private hockey pucks. And Mike, as to those places you 'just can't get to', don't think you're alone. Almost all of my model RR buddies (and myself included) have one or two spots on the layout that you have to use a step-ladder to get to for maintanence. That's why God invented the track-cleaning car, I suppose. And of course, the spot that you can't get to is ALWAYS too small to cut an access hole in the scenery for a duck-under. One thing I've done--and my layout is similar to yours by your description--is to make sure that the track is pretty much TOWARD the front of the layout, with the scenery as a backdrop. But I'm modeling mountainous territory, so the track is continually weaving in and out of the scenery on various levels. But I try and make sure that access to much or most of the main line is within arm's reach. However, I admit that one accessory that I have come to rely on is that little 3-tier kitchen stepladder. It's a lifesaver, I've kidnapped it permanently to the layout room.
Tom
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[Big_Boy_4005]

David, cats certainly aren't new around here. We've had a number of discussions involving them during my tenure, most were very amusing.

Here are some more oldies but goodies about cats and such. One of these links is where you clipped those posts from.

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=43028
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16259
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37846
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=35284
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=30359
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29069
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=14303

[Anonymous]

I was actually going to respond to this topic but changed my mind!

[trainboyH16-44]

Wow, there ARE a LOT of posts here!
Cats+trains=NOT GOOD! I think that judging by past posts, we should have learned that! (Another meaningless post on my way to )
Matthew

[loathar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by David Foster

What happened to the train shed door? Has it been fixed yet?

The door is fixed.... All is forgiven....And Kitty has a heating pad in her box for the winter.

[trainboyH16-44]

And this officially has 1500 veiws! (I'm # 1501)
I wou;d never get rid of my cats just because they damaged one of my locos, but I would make sure that they never got in the train room again.....
Matthew