Noise in early a.m. and smoke?
I had this problem in my townhouse and condo. I had to turn down the smoke and volume or get arrested for disturbing the peace.
I’m in a single-family house now and have had run-ins with neighbors over my loud construction noises.
I try to stop all activities at around 8 p.m.
Dave Vergun
Nope, down in the basement neighbors are too far away.
laz57
No. Out here in the desert the houses are farther apart. The neighbors construction and music are as loud as mine, so what could they say?
My wife on the other hand…
Wayne
Hello, just had to put in my 2 cents! Everything today seems to affect our neighbors,but it sounds like you got everything under control. I’ve seen the R/C plane guys loose all kinds of flying sites either to housing or noise. One club lost a field cause a guy said it scared the deer away in his nearby woods. Be careful you don’t scare your neighbors dog or something, seems like some people are looking for anything today! Thanks for reading, John
John,
I actually saw a fight break out down the street a ways (while walking my BB the beagle).
2 neighbors from townhouses were getting into a physical altercation over one of them deciding to race R/C cars back and forth in the road in front of the townhouses. They were actually pretty noisy but it was in the afternoon.
I walked away quickly so my poor, innocent BB wouldn’t have to see the battle-royal.
There’s a lot of target shooting in the woods near my house that’s very noisy but apparently no one has been able to stop the sound. I hear a lot of automatic (AK-47 gunfire), and occasional dynamite blasts. I’m guessing that they are trying to blow some of the beaver dams on Broad Run. When the dynamite goes off, BB the beagle flies into the air. Beagles are very sensitive to loud noises.
What are neighbors? Are those the lights I see through the woods after the leaves drop? Seriously, when someone built behind me, about 200 yds. away, I did stop target shooting in that direction.
Wow, Dave, sounds like a free-fire zone. The houses are close together here - but there’s a park close by. . . R/C cars are sure ubiquitous zipping around the driveways. We usually get the 'garage band playing too loudly ’ or ‘someone’s ripping lumber in their garage at 2 am’ kind of issues - though last year some anonymous neighbor complained to animal control about my dog barking - I’m usually pretty sensitive to this… It was more a form of petty harassment. Oh well. Not worth getting too excited about.
Thank heaven I am in our own house with 150 feet on either side with just our lot and my trains are in the basement.
I have had people get upset if I do not answer the phone as I can;t hear it with the trains running. I tell them to call before 6 pm and there will be no problem. It is sort of a built in phone pest protection. My basement phone does not ring on purpose.
Dave.
They can hear my monte carlo from a ways away [;)]
Also, I have a Nathan I hook up to an air comp and blow sometimes, thyre not too fond of that
Nope, they don’t complain about my trains, but they do complain about the UP’s trains. We’ve got a mainline with lots of grade crossing about 1/2 mile away, and an over-zealous engineer who loves to lay on the horn, especially late at night. So, my trains have absolutely no chance of annoying anybody. 
Here in New Jersey, our current speedways were built with no housing near the area. Now there are houses built near the track and the people who live their complain about the track, even though they were irresponsible to notice the problem when buying the house. There was a legislation proposition to restrict the tracks in New Jersey, this would’ve made it so that they would eventually run them out of buisiness. It wasn’t passes luckily. These people don’t get that the speedway was around for a long time.
Some of the wives complain that I’m convincing their husbands to buy trains
I live close enought to the real tracks that my neighbors can’t tell the differance if its me or the real trains.[(-D]
Me too Tom. I live very close, about a block away from the nearest tracks. I like listening too the signals that the engineer is blowing as I lay in bed.
I remeber when the 261 came to Fondyabout 5 years ago, and I heard it whistle in the night! Man, do steamer make noise(but a beutiful noise it is!) WOOOOOOOOO
I’d like to hear that Nathan … and Monte Carlo, Chris. One of my former neighbors was a long-haul trucker and had some serious air-horns on his car. The UP is about 3 miles or so away but some nights I can hear the freights go by ., a great sound. Illinois is still whistle (horn) ban country…
In our neighborhood, running the lawn mower before 8:00am is a no-no, but any noise I make with the trains is drowned out by the next door neighbor’s kids loud stereo in his Mustang.
I’ve lived in a condo for several years and haven’t had any complaints to date! Even when I took my next door neighbor down to my city’s “Civilian complain” mediation depatment for his loud and obnoxious late night parties.(seriously!) He said he has never heard my trains! (I suspect he may be a little deaf! LOL)
Here is San Francisco, I try to get my early morning operating done while the CatTrain commuters are moving in and out of the city. That way, my diesel horns, muffled by the garage, don’t sound any different from the those on the Genesis locos on their way to or from San Jose.
Um, that was supposed to say “CalTrain”, not “CatTrain”. That’s a whole 'nother story…
Good to see someone from Cincinnati on the forum. Now the whole state is covered from north ot south.