Model Railway - What's your latest acquisition?

What else did I get, devinately not a lot but what I idid get were bargain prices

- A Village Hall - 40% might do a little morris dancing ;o)

- Some towns people - they can learn country dancing ;-)

- 2 @ 3" Ash Trees - 60%

- 2 @ 4" Birch Trees - 60%

I thought I would start and work through the alphabet tree!

Blimey that must be my smallest order yet but the items will look good on the layout.

Yes, I'm afraid I need my wife. What sort of heart problem, Bulver? I am 70 now but have suffered with heart trouble since I was 45, when I had 2 heart attacks, the second nearly killing me, a bypass op (zipper club) immediately after, followed by heart failure several times, and I'm now sitting here worked by electricity, with a pacemaker, defibrillator and ventricular resynchroniser in my chest. Marvellous what they can do!

I can even plug myself into RailMaster to charge myself up.

I am also that magical age, Graskie.  My heart condition is called Brugada, it is all to do with the electrics of the ticker, and it is known as 'the sudden death syndrome'!  I have been fortunate that although it is hereditary, it has not killed me off!  Had to have an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator fitted 6 mths ago in Harefield Hospital so if the heart does go into flutter or fibrillation it will shock it back to normal.  I am one of six siblings , trust me to get the problem (but then I have lost. 3 brothers at very early ages to cancer). So I use model railways, and Hornby in particular, as a form of therapy.  (That's what I tell my wife, anyway). My problems seem small compared to yours, if I feel a bit iffy, I sit and look at the forum..........

Same age group but mine is simple SVT, controlled these many years by beta blockers.

A Dapol track cleaning wagon, now DCC fitted

Must have a clean up tomorrow I am thinking.

What a good tool this is.

I have only set it up and done a couple of short runs with the vacuum on, I thought it was clean, bits of static grass etc.

QUESTION anyone who has one. What have you set cruise and shunt speeds to?

I set it up as a train, cv 099 - 40mph & 15mph

PJ

Yes, I'm afraid I need my wife. What sort of heart problem, Bulver? I am 70 now but have suffered with heart trouble since I was 45, when I had 2 heart attacks, the second nearly killing me, a bypass op (zipper club) immediately after, followed by heart failure several times, and I'm now sitting here worked by electricity, with a pacemaker, defibrillator and ventricular resynchroniser in my chest. Marvellous what they can do!

I can even plug myself into RailMaster to charge myself up.

I am also that magical age, Graskie.  My heart condition is called Brugada, it is all to do with the electrics of the ticker, and it is known as 'the sudden death syndrome'!  I have been fortunate that although it is hereditary, it has not killed me off!  Had to have an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator fitted 6 mths ago in Harefield Hospital so if the heart does go into flutter or fibrillation it will shock it back to normal.  I am one of six siblings , trust me to get the problem (but then I have lost. 3 brothers at very early ages to cancer). So I use model railways, and Hornby in particular, as a form of therapy.  (That's what I tell my wife, anyway). My problems seem small compared to yours, if I feel a bit iffy, I sit and look at the forum..........

Same age group but mine is simple SVT, controlled these many years by beta blockers.

Nothing simple or non-serious about SVT (Supraventricular Tachycardia), RAF. You needed treatment for that. I can't tolerate Beta Blockers, so I have to stay on Amiodarone which, unfortunately, is said to be good for heart arrythmia but destoys eveything else! I had Amiodarone induced thyroiditis a few years ago and it wasn't very pleasant.

 I originally had ordinary ventricular tachycardia for quite a while, which is, of course, pretty dangerous and needs a defibrillator just in case it goes into full quivering arrest. Mine did that and my defibrillator saved me once.

In more recent years I developed atrial fibrillation which sent me all funny because it threw my cardiac device with confusing messages. To cure that I had an AV (Atrial/Ventricular) nodal ablation which cut off the confusing messages from my atria to my ventricles which are now only operated by means of a pace maker set at a minimum of 70 beats per second.

I've had a very good year so far with regard to my heart and feel fitter than I've been for a long time, with better but still not perfect breathing and feeling pretty fit physically. I am a very lucky man, but a bit concerned about my loss of taste recently which could well have been medicine induced with the cocktail I have to take and, Im told, could be gone for good.

Sorry, those not interested, but I like to help people from my own personal experience if I can, whatever the medium.

Regard that defibrillator as your guardian angel, Bulver. Mine went off and saved me several years ago.

That I do Graskie, ablation was considered as I suffered atrial flutter, but they are waiting till the ICD settles in, just so grateful to the CCUs at my local hospital and also Harefield, who fitted the device.  Glad that it worked for you, and continues to do so for years to come (we are only 70 after all). 

Anyway, my 'Tornado' is a cracker!

Looks as though we need a casualty ward as the next purchase!

Dragging the thread back onto the rails, I just bought a Cadbury coal wagon from the Welsh company, left over from the short run from an exhibition (Warley?)

Cadbury coal?? Well, They had to keep the workers warm, I suppose!  :-)

Well so far this week, a box for a Tri-ang "Nellie", a box for a Tri-ang-Hornby Evening Star, almost complete perfect Tri-ang short TPO set just needs mail bags, pony truck for Tri-ang-Hornby BR A3, boxed perfect Tri-ang-Hornby MK1 Full Brake in BR Maroon, 2x mint CKD Tri-ang-Hornby MK1 Composites, 1973 Hornby catalouge, Blue Pullman dummy car in BR Blue and Grey, Early Tri-ang Br Black 3MT body. Bit of a BR theme going on here.