Cancelled train running for today.

Well, tell her to "Get Well".

Dick

Roo,

Wishing the wife a speedy recovery. I have a good friend that suffered the same fate. Caused him some real grief for a time!

Simon

I'll pass the message on she's tough. In the meantime the layout is staged ready to go drop in tomorrow. Roo.

All the best from me, as well. 

oh! sorry news. hope your wife mends soon.

All the best to your wife mate. Married to you...she's got to be a tough cookie!

Bob

There is not one day that goes by that I don't hear off person being hit with and auto on Long Island. Tell Margie she's one tough lady and I hope she is feeling better.... 

Dennis

Thank you all for the kind words and Dennis, Margie is resting well. She still doesn't know how it happened. A visit from the daughters today cheered her up, they made sure I was looking after her, started ordering me around these women sure stick together! .  Roo.

Glad to hear she is doing well Neville, hoping she heals fast.

Sorry to hear of your wife's bruising brush with auto traffic, glad to hear she only received minor injuries and that she appears to be on the road to recovery.  As you said trains can wait.

I wish her a good health! quickly.

jpv in France

Roo, to your wife's health. Glad she has some great family to look after her.

Miketg

Yikes! Glad to hear she's OK. Trains can wait. Wishing her a speedy recovery.

Wishing your wife to a full recovery!!

Thank you all.

The thing to remember when your approaching your senior years is use overhead bridges, underpasses, or traffic lights where Margie was crossing there were none it's a very busy four lane road with a plantation in the centre. There are traffic lights about a kilometre from where she was crossing I think she has learnt a lesson...the hard way!

One day I will get this thing finished I am still working on it except now I will be cooking and doing the housework for a while as well which doesn't really worry me we have always shared the workload . Roo.

I hope they caught the knucklehead who hit her!

Roo,

Best wishes to your wife for a speedy recovery.

MELGAR

I'd like to offer my sincerest wish for her speedy recovery.

Thank You all.

"I hope they caught the knucklehead who hit her!"

The true story is, Margaret walked in front of the car just misjudged the speed, the driver a young bloke swerved out of the way, after just clipping her, stopped, and drove her home when they arrived I heard a knock on the door opened the door and my immediate thought was she had been mugged as she was sweating and bleeding.  After I heard the story and thanked the driver, I looked at her hands they needed stiches besides anything could have been wrong with her I'm no doctor, so I gently wrapped her hands up using my first aid kit from my bushwalking pack and drove Margaret straight to the hospital  the driver was visibly upset he was a good bloke he would have drove her to the hospital but Margaret wanted to come home first. The hospital is close to where we live, there was no panic everyone was calm couldn't rush to the hospital anyway it was peak hour time which compared to other cities is mild here it's just busy. Roo.

The photo is the excess Ore Storage area for the Steel mill the rusty track is out of use one day I will put it back into service. I hope to build a loading crane across the tracks for this area one day.

Feel better Margie. Glad it wasn't worse than it could have been.

Wow, I wasn't expecting to read that! She's very lucky as usually it's much worse. All the best to her! Glad to hear she will be OK. Still pain is tuff to deal with.

Trains can always run another day.

Roo your "unfinished" and "out of service" put my best complete and in service efforts to shame.  Always remember models trains are never finished, there will always be one thing to add, change or spruce up.  That's part of the fun.

Roo, I hope the best for you and your wife! Also a speedy recovery!

Margie is up bandaged hands and one side of her face is still swollen she insisted on going for a walk with me this morning just around the suburbs we didn't cross any major roads!

I have been finishing off some Weaver hoppers for Coke traffic nice quiet little job I can handle in the house. Thank you all. Roo.

I guess that is a happy story - glad the damage was not more severe, and pleased that the driver helped.

Photos are very nice.  What brand on those side dump gons?

Thanks Bob. We have been married for 46 years and produced 4 children and have 9 grandchildren so Margie is to be protected. (Orders from my daughters)

The side dump cars are from MTH, reasonably easy to convert to two rail I admit I have an obsession for them, I have ten now converted and made up loads to haul anything from limestone, coal or ballast. the one's in the photo have Limestone loads in them. Roo.

Good grief! I'm happy it wasn't worse. Thanks for sharing 

Roo posted:

Thank you all for the kind words and Dennis, Margie is resting well. She still doesn't know how it happened. A visit from the daughters today cheered her up, they made sure I was looking after her, started ordering me around these women sure stick together! .  Roo.  

Roo:

I am a father of four daughters.  I know I'm not telling you anything you don't know when I say that, if your wife and daughters are ordering you around, everyone is on the road to a full recovery.

(Ahhh, the awesome responsibility of the Y chromosome...)

Steven J. Serenska

Thanks everyone for all the kind remarks on and offline, if you knew Margie you would find she is a great lady have to be to put up with me! She is fine, a bruise on the face and two sore hands  but nothing else, I'll take care of her. Now lets get back to some modelling, I am about to start the pipework on the blast furnace give me about a week and I'll have some photos on the Yulan Valley thread somewhere here.

Take care crossing roads.Roo.

Margie is going along fine.

The layout is staged and ready for tomorrows session after missing last week. I'll try and get an easy job so I can snap some photos of the boys at work I will start another thread I won't post them here. I made a downpipe for the Blast Furnace yesterday took longer than I thought it would, the tape on the pipe join is there till the glue sets firmly then I will sand and paint the whole thing, slowly it's getting there. Now I'm going to wash the breakfast dishes then a trip to the supermarket, I've already washed and hung out the weekly towel wash so with a bit of luck I can get some modelling in today. A man's work is never done !

Take care crossing roads. Roo.

Like everyone else here (I'm sure), I'm very happy to hear that Margie is doing better.

You know all too well what a horror story this could have read. I work insurance bodily injury losses for my day job and people rarely tangle with a car and are able to move anything afterward. And those are the lucky ones.

Hey lee, feel like giving some free information?