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For the entire month of September, 10% of all Fast Tracks sales will be donated in Lionel Strang's name to the Psychosocial Oncology Clinic at the Princess Margaret Hospital.

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/one-more-year

As have many others, all of us here at Fast Tracks have been inspired by Lionel Strang. Two years ago, almost to the day, Lionel was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He was told two years ago he would not be around for another year. Apparently the people telling him this did not know Lionel very well...

A lot of us in the Model Railroading community have been following Lionel Strang for years on Facebook, and before that as an author for Model Railroader. He has provided a steady diet of most entertaining posts, almost daily. We were all shocked when he announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer and the outlook was not favorable. Since then he has lived his live in the most inspirational manner. The daily Facebook posts have become a mix of humorous, gut wrenching and inspiration, but always positive. As Lionel frequently reminds us, "there are a lot of people far worse off...", usually before hitting the road on his Harley for a 3000 mile ride.

Recently Lionel announced he was starting a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a service he is very fond of, the Psychosocial Oncology Clinic at the Princess Margaret Hospital. We thought we would help ensure he reaches his goal!

For the entire month of September, 10% of all Fast Tracks sales will be donated in Lionel's name to the Psychosocial Oncology Clinic at the Princess Margaret Hospital!

Click the link below to go to the Fast Tracks blog for more detail about this campaign. Watch for updates there from us and Lionel.

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/one-more-year

 

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Tim Warris

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Douglas Meyer

that is really a great thing

that is really a great thing you are doing.  I will have to check and see if there is anything I need from your site.  Other than a #8 double cross over template that is... I should have gotten that and not the regular#8 but hi didn't think I would need it....)

Once again it is a very nice thing you are doing.

-Doug Meyer

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Kevin Rowbotham

Class Acts...

Nice move Tim!  Like Lionel, you have a lot of class.

Fight the good fight Lionel!

Best regards, 

~Kevin

Appreciating Modeling In All Scales but majoring in HO!

Not everybody likes me, luckily not everybody matters.

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Parthia27

Cancer is a horrible mindless

Cancer is a horrible mindless killer that affects the lives of millions of people around the world each year. I have been fighting this gruesome illness for nearly 7 years and like Lionel have survived longer than the initial prognosis I was given. Your support for Lionel is truly wonderful, whilst all cancer sufferers have bad days, hopefully the bad days are outnumbered by the good days and I sincerely hope that Lionel can maintain his inspirational attitude to life for a good period into the future. I will certainly be buying something from you to help his cause. Inspirational gestures like yours shows to people like myself that there are good people in this world who will make a sacrifice for others. Sir you have made me smile having read this post which is something I do not do enough at the moment. Thank you, good luck with this project and I will offer a prayer for the continued longevity of Lionel's life.

Chris Messer

​United Kingdom

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Virginian and Lake Erie

When I first saw this I

When I first saw this I thought oh my did Lionel pass away? So glad that I discovered he was still with us and his wit would still be injected into things he does for MRH and hobby events in the future. I hope you manage a full recovery Lionel, I know someone from about 40 years ago, who went through a similar event. This gentleman used to stop by and often the topic turned to his diagnosis and he said he had already out lived his last four doctors. At the time he seemed very vigorous and quite full of life. I do not believe that cancer was the cause of his death and he managed to recover from it.

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Fast Tracks

Well said Chris...

Thanks for the feedback. We can only imagine the struggle you and Lionel have been enduring. One of the reasons we are supporting Lionel's campaign is that the physiological toll of a cancer diagnosis is hard to overstate. And it's an area that does not get the attention is should and we are hoping we can raise enough to let Lionel achieve his goal and more.

Lionel has been quite an inspiration over the last two years. We want to be a part of that somehow...

Tim Warris

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Fast Tracks

Today is the final day...

Today is your last chance to be a part of our "One More Year" campaign to help us raise money for cancer support.

So far it has been an excellent month as a lot of modelers made a point of getting an order in to be a part of this fund raising campaign, and we are forever grateful, as is Lionel Strang who inspired us to take this on.

We fully expect to make this an annual event, so if you missed out this year, you can have another chance to help us, help others.

Tim

Tim Warris

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Pelsea

The items I need...

are out of stock. If I order today, does it count in the fund drive, even though you can't ship and charge my card until next month?

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Fast Tracks

Yep.

Any booked order in the month of September will be added to the total, even if it doesn't ship until later.

Tim Warris

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Kevin Rowbotham

Wanted to give back too...

I didn't need any supplies at the moment so I donated directly to the go fund me page.

it's a good thing you are doing Tim.

Best regards,

~Kevin

Appreciating Modeling In All Scales but majoring in HO!

Not everybody likes me, luckily not everybody matters.

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Virginian and Lake Erie

Tip of the hat to you Tim,

Tip of the hat to you Tim, excellent products, great service, and now an excellent cause to back as well. I find it very refreshing to see someone in the position you are in doing such good deeds.

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