Kinda sad

[Anonymous]

good luck,friend![:)]

[Anonymous]

The one thing we can allways count on is the strenght of the LORD.I know how discourageing life can be when medical problems arise.I to get discouraged I am rapidly going deaf and with no medical way to reverse it,I often find my self sad.But my faith that GODS plan is greater than anything I could imagine allows me to laugh and smile at all of the pleasure that still surronds me.You had a post not long ago about using trains and ministry,maybe the good LORD is calling you to do just that.Combining your passion for your trains with your love of God to help others might be where you will find great joy in life.My Prayers are with you.GOD BLESS.

[Anonymous]

I was kind of hurried last time I checked in, but I saw this was getting low on the front page and figured I'd bump it up some. Anyway Alex, I know how health problems go, in the last two years I've had surgeries for an umbilical hernia, an egg-sized cyst cut out of my neck, and I've cut the ends of 3 fingers off. Hopefully you'll get better, and get back to your module.

Good Luck,
Greg

[Anonymous]

Thanks for everyones prayers and support! As for the module, I am going to try somthing in the way of western oklahoma. Oil co. or a town with a grain elevator. I may try to build a tornado and put it in the background[:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Oklahoma Train Nut

Thanks for everyones prayers and support! As for the module, I am going to try somthing in the way of western oklahoma. Oil co. or a town with a grain elevator. I may try to build a tornado and put it in the background[:D]

Alex -

You've been added to my daily prayer list. I, too, have had some medical issues, and can say with great certainty that my faith in God pulled me through six surgeries for a recurring abscess/infection. Very nasty. Having a medical problem gives you a new perspective on life. Even when you're at your worst, there are those in the world that have it much worse than you do. It can be tough to keep a positive outlook, and there are days that it is very difficult to 'get over the hump', so to speak. Make a concious effort each morning to thank the Lord for giving you another day, then put a smile on your face and try to keep it there! I know just from the support you've been getting in this forum that the prayers for you are being heard! Keep the faith, bro. What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger - that might sound a bit harsh now, but from my own experience, it's true. And when you DO get over this problem, don't forget that even something as simple as a smile can work miracles for someone who is down in the dumps. [:D]

Now, on to the trains!

I LOVE your idea about a tornado in the background - VERY original! I have never heard of that being modeled before. Additionally, you might be able to work some trickery with the backdrop to get lightning effects going. I seem to remember an article in a magazine where a gentleman had done just that, but it escapes me right now. Maybe someone else on here will remember - and if you like the idea, reposting it as its own topic might help get it more exposure.

By the way, I've overcome some childhood medical problems and I now fly fighters (though purists would say I'm an attack pilot) in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. Never listen to them when they say, 'No.' If I had a dollar for every doctor who said I would never be a pilot, much less a military one, I'd be rich!

Happy holidays, and happy model RRing!

Chris

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Oklahoma Train Nut

Thanks for everyones prayers and support! As for the module, I am going to try somthing in the way of western oklahoma. Oil co. or a town with a grain elevator. I may try to build a tornado and put it in the background[:D]

Cherokee Woman & I have you in our thoughts also.
The suggestions for oil co.,stockyard,grain elevator are all
good. I was going to suggest a small engine facility;but
your own idea is cool. If you do that one,and get it realistic
looking,THAT will be a challenge. (Looking forward to pics!)

TO GOOD HEALTH and good modeling.[:)]

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Oklahoma Train Nut
As for the module, I am going to try somthing in the way of western oklahoma. Oil co. or a town with a grain elevator. I may try to build a tornado and put it in the background.

After growing up on Kanas, I laugh at the people here who consider a large dust-devil a tornado. My father's house was on national TV when they showed the Eldorado trailer park hit by the big one in 1986.

Anyway, I saw a module that had an animated tornado on it. They had a hood that had a spinning motor mounted in it. the motor was on a plotter x/y grid so they could program where it went.

[Anonymous]

So, I thought I would tell ya'll what the doctor said: I do have an irregular heart rythm, and although i get a luttle fatigued at times, It is nothing serious and i should outgrow it. I have yet to do anything with trains since I took the one around the tree down....I have been so busy with school, church, and trying to play guitar in between, I have had little time. I hope to start doing some more with trains when summer comes.

[Anonymous]

Glad to hear you doing better. I "play" with my trains everyday, how do you survive without them? [:p]

[dave9999]

Alex,
Glad to hear you are going to outgrow the condition. But don't worry... you won't outgrow your
trains.[8D] Good luck. Dave

[dinwitty]

being around in a club will be good because of your condition others can help you if you have trouble.

Try some kind of switching module so you can have some kind of fun at home as well as at the club.

[Anonymous]

Great news!

Mark

[twhite]

GREAT news!!! If it helps at all, like I told you in my last post, I had an irregular heartbeat when I was a kid, too. Doctor told me I'd outgrow it, I did and spent the last two years of High School on the track team, so just follow the doctor's orders and keep in there, my friend. You said you were going to model a tornado? Ever seen the movie WIZARD OF OZ? The tornado in that movie was made with a nylon stocking and some wire to make it hover, and a vacuum cleaner underneath set on 'blow.' So it can be done. But be sure you make it a real Panhandle Twister, not one of those puny little Amarillo dust-devils, LOL!
Take care--you're going to get nothing but better!
Tom [:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

I am glad you are going to be fine but being worn out and tired all the time really sucks dosent it? This to shall pass.

All the suggestions I have read are great but the one scien that popped into my mind when I read your post was something my Grandfather showed me in the late 1970's. An abandoned World War II POW camp in Maysville Kentucky. He told me that the ships that took war material over to Europe brought German POW's back to the United States and they were housed in small camps across the country. They were moved inside the US by train (of course). It would take some homework to find out what one of there camps looked like and what the pow trains looked like but you could model in any decade from the 1940's up to maybe the 1980's (the one I saw was in sorry shape but still recignizable)

Whatever you decide to do have fun. Take care of yourself and your family. They are as worried fabout you as you are bored.