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Trains.com Forums arranging - a modest proposal.

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Trains.com Forums arranging - a modest proposal.
Posted by wjstix on Friday, April 13, 2007 4:42 PM

Just a thought, but given how often posts for Classic Toy Trains end up in the Classic Trains forum, would it be possible to divide the Trains.com forums into two different groupings?? Dividing the "electric train" and "real train" forums might help keep these mis-postings from happening.

One group  would have Model Railroader, Classic Toy Trains and Garden Railway forums, the other would have Trains and Classic Trains forums.

Just an idea....Smile [:)]

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Posted by PBenham on Saturday, April 14, 2007 7:40 AM
I like the idea. (for whatever that's worth Sign - Dots [#dots]) The placement of the two "Classic" forums is potentially confusing. The Classic Toy Trains forums should be "under" the MR forum. Then, too, the Classic Trains forum could be moved to between the two prototype forums.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:09 PM

I like the idea, too.  I have helped point the way for the errant often enough to second the motion, warmly.  But I think you have to get Eric/Bergie on board to get anywhere.

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Posted by rustycoupler on Saturday, April 14, 2007 9:42 PM
 now now everybody play nice ! we all know gg-1s ruleSmile [:)]
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Posted by spikejones52002 on Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:12 AM

maybe rebuilding the forum into topics----

N gauge and smaller, then gauges, Ho,  S,  O,  G and real trains. then Trains Mag stories.

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Posted by DMUinCT on Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:26 AM

I'll be realy lost.

All my life I have loved trains, the Real 1:1 Trains, even my boss knew time was lost when a train went by, I would even catch a ride when I could.  

But, I've been Collecting old Lionel "O" Gauge Trains for 35 years, and, from the 1940s, a few "S" gauge and a few "HO" gauge.

Then again, my backyard is covered with over 500 feet of "G" gauge track to operate 20 and 30 car freight trains.

Which Fourm?

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 15, 2007 2:16 PM

Which forum, you ask?  Why not all of them?  I've travelled coast to coast on the real thing, the Navy sent me to Great Lakes on a train when I enlisted. I spent my childhood and most of my teens with Lionel, got involved with scale O, scale HO, and now large scale.  And I'm still interested in all of them.

Would I want all these rolled into one forum? NO, of course not. Take newspapers for example; do I want my comics mixed up with news, or editorials mixed in with the travel section; again the answer is NO.

I don't expect to find large scale articles in TRAINS, and I don't expect movie ratings in MODEL RAILROADER.

I have more than one book in my library, too.Smile [:)]

Art 

 

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Posted by wjstix on Sunday, April 15, 2007 8:52 PM
 DMUinCT wrote:

I'll be realy lost.

All my life I have loved trains, the Real 1:1 Trains, even my boss knew time was lost when a train went by, I would even catch a ride when I could.  

But, I've been Collecting old Lionel "O" Gauge Trains for 35 years, and, from the 1940s, a few "S" gauge and a few "HO" gauge.

Then again, my backyard is covered with over 500 feet of "G" gauge track to operate 20 and 30 car freight trains.

Which Fourm?

 

Well...if you have a question about real trains of the past, you would ask your question in the Classic Trains forum. If it was about your Lionel trains, you'd ask it in the Classic Toy Trains forum. For your HO stuff, you'd find more in the forums run by Model Railroader mag.

Once you sign up for the Kalmbach/Trains.com forums, you can post in any of them you want, you know. You don't have to pick just one forum to use.

Stix

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