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Hey Jim,  There are no mundane posts - everyone has a story!

Sure hope your rehab goes well and you ca get back to work soon...

Jim,

   I agree with c sam, no mundane post here, each member has their own story to

tell, and we all hope your rehab gets you back on your feet so you can continue your train hobby.

PCRR/Dave

There's no therapy like train therapy, sorry to hear your in a wheelchair and no elevator!  Great find on those different 6 car sets of Pere Marquette!  Also good to have ambitions and goals for that dream layout, good time for planning!  At least (hopefully) you can enjoy an ice cold Bud here and there!

 

Get well soon,

Stack

The best thing to say here is for you to get better soon. Anybody who has been immobilized at one point in their life can sympathies what you are going through. The good news, you will probably heel quickly and be back at the layout soon.

 

Thanks for sharing with us.

How true the above posts are.  You don't realize the freedom and mobility you lose until it happens.  But you have your layout to look forward to.  Lots of time to come up with ideas, too!  Best wishes for a complete recovery.

Sorry you are mobility challenged at present.  Have you thought about installing one of the free track planning software on your computer and designing your next layout?  Hours of fun!  Best wishes, Ken.

Planning a layout is, in many ways, as much fun as building or having one to run.  I think Ken-Oscale had the right idea.  Get some track planing software or just some drawing paper, ruler, etc., and start planning.  It is  alot of fun.

 

Hope you get better soon!

Jim, I love the Rouge complex also lotta railroading there in that small area! I work for the NS we just put a train in there last night .

Jim, I understand your frustration....

I installed the Stairlift pictured below in our Condo during 2009 when my wife was in a long and very difficult surgical refix and rehab lasting over a year post knee surgery.  It cost as much as 3 nice big Command engines but has proved invauable.

 

Ironically, in Spring 2010 after a small stroke and major balance problems, I found myself riding the Lift to my unfinished attic train room[turn left at the top of the stairs].

Between the two-rail transportation and using a 30' tether upsstairs on my oxygen concentrator, I was able to at least get to the layout room and do light work. At first, even being able to just get up there and sit and stare at it helped.

 

Happily you are on the way to healing and will not have a lame situation similar to mine. But keep the "traveling technology"[wheels and rails] in mind as you get older.

Best wishes for rapid and successful healing and starting on River Rouge.

 

 

 

  

Hope you're feeling better.  I had spinal fusion surgery in December and am just now feeling like I could start working again on my layout.  With Spring starting soon, not sure I'll get it working this year until Fall.