losing hair and O gauge trains

The four Atlas engines is my bet for the hair loose. I had a few which caused me to pull my hair out.

Definitely the TMCC and DCS! Life was so much simpler with just a Z handle in each hand. The added stress of getting command control configured proper and then remembering all those commands I sure was a factor in the receding hairline. Let us return to simpler times!

 

Steve

Ya, if yer trains is too complicated or aggrivating it can cause hair loss. Go conventional!

 

 

This was me on N scale. After I switched to O-gauge conventional, my hair grew back.

The lead in the chinese paint as well as the petroleum distillates in the smoke fluid!

I have heard that massaging MegaSteam fluid into your scalp can rejuvenate hair growth.  Do be careful as to which scent you choose though. 

Nicole, were you the Forumite who posted a reply that you had tried MegaSteam Beer and your layout room had smelled like "an old pub rug"?

 

If so, your advice about choosing a scent carefully is written from experience.

Postwar conventional O-gauge trains will promote hair growth. Use daily.

 

Any trains that cause you hair loss can be sent to Ace. As a free public service, I will safely dispose of your trains in a socially responsible manner that will cause no harm to the planet or to other people.

Hats are cheeper than trains!  

Well, personally, I'll stick with my old, thin, gray buzz-cut hair and Command Control...

I prefer that to looking like a wookie with a ZW. Just sayin'.

 

Funny thread, Rick B. 

The only consolation, if there really is such a thing, is that the rest of my face eventually mutates, as I age, making the hair issue kind-of mute.

 

Now I've got to enroll in an improved personality class, to offset my social handicap.

 

With grace and poise, I will continue on...

 

 

Rick

 

Ace,

 

Maybe, it's time for a new avatar, since your coming out, here. There's something to be said, for just being yourself.

 

BTW, even if I had the opportunity to change things... I wouldn't do it. I'm a keeper, just the way I am.

 

 

Rick

Well remembered Sir. Yes, that was me. 

Think of it this way....The money you are saving on Shampoo and haircuts will pay for some new FasTrack at the end of the year! 

That ****** grade 9 biology teacher hexed me! My trains probably exacerbated things, though.

 

 

Rick

 

<----- Hey guys, that's me.  Look carefully: it gets worse every year. 

 

 

Tell me again what Rogaine costs?    I thought so . . .  Can't you buy a really good Legacy loco for that?

Insidious, seems like an appropriate word, Lee - proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.

 

On the positive side; I'm wearing size 30 waist jeans. Never was too big or overweight; but, can't ever remember having a 30" waist; at least, not as an adult.

 

Good eating and exercise seems to pay off; and trains in moderation.

 

 

Rick

 

Yeah, I heard about the 'fringe benefit' (poor pun, I know) of using Megasteam.  Unfortunately, I had no idea that 'Nada' meant more than it's residual bouquet!!

Ah well, we might as well 'celebrate' the event...

 

 

 

KD 

Hey, not me.  I have spent a lifetime slowly building up a  layer of insulation over my entire body, the results of a careully considered regime of fine food and wine - good eating, as you observe.  This layer of added insulation does me very well this time of year, where I feel very limited effects of the cold weather - a hat, gloves, and my sport coat, and I'm good to go because I am naturally insulated, even down to far below freezing. 

 

As to moderation in toy trains: as Nero Wolfe would have said: "Phooey!"

One of the things that bugs me, is the stage where the top gets thinner and thinner; and looks awkwardly sparse... when it has a bit of length. KD's look beats that transitional sparse look.

 

I wonder if O gauge equipment affects the genetically susceptible, more than the other scales?  BTW, I'm enjoying the side benefit, redistribution. I always felt that backs truly look their best, with a little growth.

 

Maybe, a slot car set would take care of that?

 

 

Rick

 

 

 

 

 

If you're feeling old, maybe you just need new toys to play with. 

Ace,

 

I never thought of going bald, as an age thing. Unfortunately, just a fact of life for some of us.

 

Me, have an adjustment disorder over something so trivial... Never!

 

Like I said, I've got a good melon for a buzz cut; it's just a pain, keeping that look up.

 

 

Rick

 

 

 

My brother died of cancer at age 25. A cousin died of cancer at age 51.

 

If my hair is thinning as I age, I'm just glad I get to live this long and have more time to enjoy my trains.

That mean old "male pattern baldness". Started losing my hair back in 1968 at the ripe old age of 20. Just a few random hairs on my comb over the next 20 years or so, then it really started thinning on top until my normal right-side part was looking like a "comb-over".  Can't blame my O gauge trains, they were in storage during that time. Maybe when I was in HO, the frustration of figuring out why my trains derailed on perfectly good trackwork made me lose some.   

I'm 70, and have not lost a single hair, although it is grey. What I did loose is my rear-end...which moved to my gut.

Have you thought about selling advertising space on the back of your head for train money?  Perhaps temporary tattoos.

 

Unfortunately, my full head of white hair was partially lost during radiation treatments. Considering the alternative, I am not complaining. I wear hats now, and my wife says I have too many hats and too many trains.

 

Signing off now to go run my trains. The Y6b is beckoning me, and I have some scenery to build.

My mother said baldness was inherited through the mother's side and her father died with a full head of hair. Therefore, I had nothing to worry about. I am bald like my dad' dad. My mother lied to me. Lol I am depressed now, so I think I will go buy a new Legacy engine and run it to feel better.

David,

 

Doesn't really matter where you picked up the bald gene(s). I doubt the contributing couple would have held up things... because there was a possibility that a bald O gauger might be the end result.

 

I think the O gauge manufacturers should be proactive, and at least print warning labels on their packaging:

 

i.e. - WARNING - exposure to O gauge trains puts you at RISK for going BALD. BEWARE - a family history of baldness combined with significant exposure to O gauge equipment, can lead to varying degrees of PERMANENT, traumatic, hair loss.

 

 

Rick

Rick...  You wouldn't happen to be from the 'State of California', would you??  They've "determined" so many of these things and insisted on stickers to decorate warn us, I'm surprised they've missed this one.  It'll be a doozie, I'm sure, plastered on the Orange/Blue, Purple/Yellow, Blue, Black, Silver, etc. boxes and products therein.  Something else to look forward to.

 

KD

Forget the hair loss. Instead, always wear a fallen flag railroad cap and t-shirt in public. When the ladies see that big diesel or steam locomotive on your chest they will know that you are THE COOLEST dude around and will totally overlook any and all physical short-comings! 

 

Bill

I've lost most of my hair.

Now I tell Rich Melvin my head is a solar panel for great steam loco engineering.

ask Rich, he'll confirm this.

 

Scrapiron Scher

 

Seems like some pretty good/cool guys are bald or balding, here; maybe we should have a railroad club of our own; but, we're good guys, so we wouldn't want to be exclusive and leave anyone out.

 

There's some good company amongst our ranks.

 

 

Rick