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 guess I’am lucky my old cat don’t seem to bother my lay out,I’ve seen her walk all over it and not touth any thing.[^]
JIM
Ever thought of putting a spring closer on the door?
Better still use a pulley with a rail bar or piece of rail as a weight to pull the door shut… and another lump of rail to hold it open… paint it bright so you can see what you tripped over.
Blaming the cat is like blaming your computer… at least it was the cat not vandals or thieves.
Man that sucks!
Hi lothar. I had this hapent to me several times years ago, I have my RR out back om a se[erate building and the cat started chasing birds and other critters there WOW!! Talk about a mess!! He eventualy moved away and the problems went with him. But they sure can make a mess. sorry hop you can recover.
That cat would have quietly disappeared… Here kitty kitty [}:)]
Jeff
I like cats …
… they taste just like chicken. [:-,]
I’ve got a pad lock latch on it but don’t normally set it. The doors are really heavy and their weight usually keeps them shut. It must have been a pretty good wind to blow them open. I thought vandells at first, but I lve in the middle of no where with no neibors.
Ouch. We’ve never had that problem, as our old cat (that died this year) was exceptionally well behaved, and there was a door between her and the trains. Now there are some less well behaved cats, with 2 TIGHTLY closed doors between them and my new Atlas C424s.
Matthew
This thread seems to pop up more than any other I know…except for the dreaded poll.
A good man never blames his fools.
P.S. - I do wi***hat it had not happened to you. Does this mean you will have to go purchase another A-liner? [:p]
I second that emotion. Fortunatly my entire family including me is allergic to cats. Good enugh reason for me to not have them around in my opinion. My dog on the otherhand likes to watch trains roll by. She gets her own chair next to the train layout and she barks when one goes bye. She doesn’t show any inclination to start chasing it or get up on to the layout. She just seems to be giving it a doggy “Hello” to the crew of the passing train.
James
Exceptionally tasty when done in a crock pot with sauerkraut and new potatoes!
[}:)]
Darrell, dinner’s ready! but quiet…for now
I’m really not a cat fan.This ones a REALLY good mouser. That’s the only reason she’s still breathing. The weird thing is she was always in there with me and never showed any interest in the train or jumping up on anything. I’m starting to wonder if another cat chased her up there.
Not to change the subject lothar, but did you do any design work on Trainz 2006? The name lothar comes up a lot in the game, Lothar coffe, Lothar’s Bistro.
No,but I’ll have to check that out.Do you mean the name is on buildings in the game? Or in the devolopers credits?
Yeah it is on objects in the game. A good number of them.
Is one of the pre-requisites of MR owning a cat???
I couldn’t imagine what would happen if a cat got on my work bench. It would be mass hysteria.
Here is one of “your” billboards.
I have both editions of books called “101 Uses for a Dead Cat,” total of 202 uses, so afterwards…