Brent, if what you say is accurate, it is really some strange behavior on Wayne's part to abandon two forums on which he was so active.
You have to wonder why he did that.
Rich
Alton Junction
richhotrain Brent, if what you say is accurate, it is really some strange behavior on Wayne's part to abandon two forums on which he was so active. You have to wonder why he did that. Rich
Don't know what to say, Rich, the last time I reached out to someone who knows him, they said he had computer issues. Maybe he just had enough of the WWW. He has been hosting guests to his layout quite recently as far as I understand.
Big Blue was his main hang-out.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
I have his name and address, as well as his direct Email.
It may be time to write an old fashioned letter.
I did send him an Email a while back with no response.
We had several conversations by Email before he dropped off the forums.
Sheldon
This is the last post doctorwayne made back in 12/23:
doctorwayne I'm a little curious, but when you mention fading, is that similar to weathering? I usually weather most of my rolling stock, but some more recent ones (made to look like fairly close to "new") usually don't get much weathering at all. And, of course, there are always a bunch of older models overly weathered...in those cases, I often strip all of the paint & lettering, and then redo paint, lettering and usually some lighter weathering, too.I'd toss in some pictures, but have forgotten how to do so (semi-brain-dead, I guess).Cheers, Wayne
I'm a little curious, but when you mention fading, is that similar to weathering? I usually weather most of my rolling stock, but some more recent ones (made to look like fairly close to "new") usually don't get much weathering at all. And, of course, there are always a bunch of older models overly weathered...in those cases, I often strip all of the paint & lettering, and then redo paint, lettering and usually some lighter weathering, too.I'd toss in some pictures, but have forgotten how to do so (semi-brain-dead, I guess).Cheers, Wayne
I changed the font to bold. Perhaps the computer problems that have been mentioned had nothing to do with hardware but the ability to input.
I also found the thread where he mentioned tearing down the layout. That was in 2021.
Rick
I found this which helps explain things:
I will update on Wayne. I talk to him every other week and he is doing fine. He is spending a lot of time in a hobby shop in St Cadherins.
He had an incident a year ago and got lost while traveling to a friends because of road detours and it scared him. He thinks he has the beginning stages of Alzheimer's and has been to a doctor. I see nothing in the way of memory loss that isn't normal for late 70's but his mother died from it in her 50's.
He had computer issues and finally gave up. He had been using Windows for years but his daughter gave him a Mac and I think the difference was more than he wanted to attack so last week he told me he had given it to his grand kids. Frankly, he seems to have given up on everything but modeling and he is doing a lot of custom work for the hobby shop. He is fine and in good spirits and hopes to visit me yet this year.
Lots of us have senior moments, remember them even while young, sometime our brains just seem to go blank, proubly from overload. We also get in a routine, a certain way to get from a to b without thinking, throw up a detour and we get thrown out of wack. I can see dumping the Mac, with each new rendition of Windows I get further and further behind as most of the new features are not wanted, one of my new phones is always asking which way I want to send a text, why, I don't need a secure link ect. to tell someone I am on my way etc. Glad he is doing fine.
Yes, "senior moments"!! I'm beginning that they're par for the course the older I get.
I'm 100% sure I'm not the only one who misses Dr. Wayne's contributions, but it's good to read that he's doing custom modeling for the local hobby shop.
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I am one of them. No offense to others but I think I learned more from his posts than anyone else's. The details, including pictures, that he got into describing his methods gave meconfidence that I could pull off projects.
Now if he would paint his fascia.......
Thanks so much for following up, Rick. I had feared the worst, but it sounds like it's only the second worst (computer issues, memory issues, and computer memory issues).
I'm bummed because I was hoping to ask Doc to paint my Roundhouse 4-4-2 Atlantic. He was always talking about (and showing photos of) engines he'd painted for friends. In the past two years I've had two people who said they'd do the job and then flaked out. I finally gave it to a neighbor who is eager to do it.
Whenever you contact him again, tell him I/we miss him here.
-Matt
Returning to model railroading after 40 years and taking unconscionable liberties with the SP&S, Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads in the '40s and '50s.