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Calling DoctorWayne - About your elevated crossing tower....

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Calling DoctorWayne - About your elevated crossing tower....
Posted by crossthedog on Tuesday, February 13, 2024 7:58 PM

Private messaging isn't working, so I'm broadcasting my question... Doc, you once posted some photos of a crossing-guard's elevated tower, with some brick buildings in the background. It strikes me that the cabin part was maybe green or grey. It was not the Atlas model, which has just a ladder, nor the J.L. Innovative kit, which has one long flight of stairs. Yours had a stairway with a landing halfway down. Was that scratchbuilt or did you buy a kit?

Sorry to spam everyone.

Thanks,

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Posted by Attuvian1 on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 10:52 AM

crossthedog

Sorry to spam everyone.

Thanks,

-Matt

 
Don't worry about spamming us, Matt.  It's always good to hear from Dr. Wayne - and see his stuff.  Even if you have to pry him out of his lair.
 
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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:04 AM

Haven't heard from doc since December 20th.

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Posted by snjroy on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:10 AM

Well, maybe Wayne has better things to do than read stuff on his computer. This thread has a picture of it, I think:

 https://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/13/t/228110.aspx

Maybe someone can recognize it. Sorry, the system is not allowing me to make the link clickable, on my computer anyway Angry.

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 12:48 PM

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Posted by crossthedog on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 2:04 PM

Yeah, thanks guys. That's the one. Any clues appreciated as to who makes that one, if indeed it is a commerical product. I like it a lot.

Hope the good doctor is okay.

-Matt

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 7:44 PM

crossthedog

Yeah, thanks guys. That's the one. Any clues appreciated as to who makes that one, if indeed it is a commerical product. I like it a lot.

Hope the good doctor is okay.

-Matt

 

Could be this one.

It was commercially made, orignally by Revell, and available for many decades under several brands.

They can still be found unassembled and are very well detailed.

https://hoseeker.net/revellinformation/Revell1958infopage07.jpg

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Posted by crossthedog on Thursday, February 15, 2024 11:38 AM

ATLANTIC CENTRAL
Could be this one.

Thanks for digging this up, Sheldon. It does have the lower landing and the supports are the same. The stairway seems more lightweight, though. I wonder if Wayne kitbashed it.

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Posted by snjroy on Thursday, February 15, 2024 3:51 PM

Atlas also offered a very similar one. I browsed the net and did not find any other ones commercially available. I suspect either a kitbash or a scratchbuild. 

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Posted by mbinsewi on Saturday, February 24, 2024 10:48 AM

Rich's link, a thread with some old favorites.  I'm sure the Dr. Wayne scratch build the stairs and landings, along with some kitbashing.  That what he does!  With amazing results.

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, March 3, 2024 10:39 PM

Looks like Wayne has abandoned the forum. Maybe Bertram's burned down and he is in mourning. Laugh

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Sunday, March 3, 2024 11:18 PM

richhotrain

Looks like Wayne has abandoned the forum. Maybe Bertram's burned down and he is in mourning. Laugh

Rich

 

I sent Wayne an Email about two weeks ago - no response. And the other forum he spends time on has not seen him as well?

I surely hope he is ok?

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Posted by Water Level Route on Monday, March 4, 2024 8:53 AM

ATLANTIC CENTRAL

 

 
richhotrain

Looks like Wayne has abandoned the forum. Maybe Bertram's burned down and he is in mourning. Laugh

Rich

 

 

 

I sent Wayne an Email about two weeks ago - no response. And the other forum he spends time on has not seen him as well?

I surely hope he is ok?

Sheldon

 

He stopped posting to both sites about the same time in December.  Doesn't seem good.

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Posted by crossthedog on Thursday, April 4, 2024 10:36 PM

Water Level Route
He stopped posting to both sites about the same time in December. Doesn't seem good.

Anybody heard anything further? I almost hate to ask.

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, April 4, 2024 10:53 PM

I reached out to a mutual friend a while back, Wayne is fine, he is just having computer problems.

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Friday, April 5, 2024 7:01 AM

That is very good to hear, thank you.

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Posted by crossthedog on Friday, April 5, 2024 11:32 AM

I'm relieved. And ha! Now that I think about it, wasn't it always Wayne that complained that he'd just spent an hour writing a response and loading up images for a post only to have the forum software suddenly toss it all into the outer darkness?

Well, God bless 'im. I hope he gets back in here. I want to ask him to paint my Atlantic.

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Posted by richhotrain on Friday, April 5, 2024 4:35 PM

I can't find anywhere on any forum that Wayne has posted anything in 2024. It concerns me because I cannot imagine Wayne without a computer for going on four months.

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Posted by Doughless on Friday, April 5, 2024 7:17 PM

richhotrain

I can't find anywhere on any forum that Wayne has posted anything in 2024. It concerns me because I cannot imagine Wayne without a computer for going on four months.

Rich

 

Rich, see Brent's comment just above.

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Posted by richhotrain on Friday, April 5, 2024 7:57 PM

Doughless

 

 
richhotrain

I can't find anywhere on any forum that Wayne has posted anything in 2024. It concerns me because I cannot imagine Wayne without a computer for going on four months.

Rich

 

 

 

Rich, see Brent's comment just above.

 

I did read Brent's comment, but I remain concerned. Wayne is a moderator on another forum, but he hasn't posted since last December. That is not like Wayne, and 3 to 4 months without a computer is a very long time.

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Saturday, April 6, 2024 9:48 AM

richhotrain

I did read Brent's comment, but I remain concerned. Wayne is a moderator on another forum, but he hasn't posted since last December. That is not like Wayne, and 3 to 4 months without a computer is a very long time.

Rich

I too thought the same, especially in today's day where computers, computer parts, sales/service is readily available. Even a personal cell phone should offer some internet connection.

By no means do I wish bad times or bad health to anyone, but like Rich said, it raises concern.

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Posted by hbgatsf on Thursday, July 4, 2024 7:41 AM

Any info on doctorwayne?  He still hasn't made any posts.

Hope he is OK.

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, July 4, 2024 7:46 AM

hbgatsf

Any info on doctorwayne?  He still hasn't made any posts.

Hope he is OK.

 

Every once in awhile, I check various sources. Nothing. He is a moderator on another forum, but has not made an appearance in 2024.

Not good.

Rich

 

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Posted by hbgatsf on Thursday, July 4, 2024 7:52 AM

Does anyone know his full name?

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Posted by snjroy on Thursday, July 4, 2024 9:01 AM

I think I found his full name searching on the Web. But I hesitate to post it here for privacy reasons. My search did not unveil any sad news about him.

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Posted by hbgatsf on Thursday, July 4, 2024 11:13 AM

snjroy

I think I found his full name searching on the Web. But I hesitate to post it here for privacy reasons. My search did not unveil any sad news about him.

Simon

 

I was going to do an obituary search for his name.  Did you try that?  

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Posted by snjroy on Thursday, July 4, 2024 12:38 PM

Yes, that is what I checked.

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, July 4, 2024 1:18 PM

If there is a health or medical issue, a lot of times families keep such stuff private. That might be happening in this case, hopefully not, but you never know.

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Posted by hbgatsf on Thursday, July 4, 2024 1:44 PM

Somewhere along the line he mentioned in a post that he was considering tearing down his layout.  I never saw it mentioned again or an explanation of why he said it.  I would think a decision like that has some heavy reasoning behind it.  

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, July 4, 2024 3:15 PM

From other places and people I interact with on the WWW, Wayne is still chugging along and hosting people at his layout. I know Wayne's last name but do not feel it is appropriate for me to divulge it here even though he has done so himself at times.

Wayne was active elsewhere online, most notably Big Blue Trains but it seems he has also stopped participating there.

With Wayne's participation and influence in our hobby, I am sure we would hear in short order if anything were to happen to him.

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