I have been a member of the Trains, Trains News Wire, and Model Railroader websites since their inception. Now, as of a few weeks ago, I am blocked from signing in. The response is:
"Sorry, but it looks like your credentials are incorrect. Please check your user name and password and try again."
I'm using the same "credentials" (user name and password) that I've always used. But I get the same response regardless how many times I retype them.
I sent a post to Customer Service, but have not received a respose.
Does anyone know what's going on? Can anyone help?
Thanks, Hank
Try clearing your browser history and settings. That worked for another member just the other day.
I have no trouble logging in, but I have not been able to log out of the forums (cs.trains server) for some time.
You seem to be caught up in the latest episode of the long-running Kalmbach IT comedy of errors.
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
I've had to delete history and cookies multiple times in the past two to three weeks to restore my ability to read Newswire. Suffice to say it is becoming a huge PITA and will be a consideration when I receive renewal notices for the various Kalmbach magazines to which I subscribe.
As long as I am signed in to the Forums - I REFUSE to jump through any Kalmbach hoops, ring any bells or flip any switches.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Woe here also.
Shouldn't the email address and password that I use to log onto this forum be the same as I use to access the "exclusive" online content available to print magazine subscribers?
As for the Trains site, it would appear that all I'm worthy of now is News Wire and the Rochelle webcam. Correct? And on the Classic Trains site, it would appear that all I'm worthy of now is Photo of the Day and ... the Rochelle webcam. Correct?
Despite these paltry offerings, when I try to sign in to access them (using my forum email and password), I am getting that same message about my credentials not being in order that Hytec is getting.
What's the deal with this?
Lithonia OperatorDespite these paltry offerings, when I try to sign in to access them (using my forum email and password), I am getting that same message about my credentials not being in order that Hytec is getting. What's the deal with this?
Been logged on to the forum for the past few hours, being curious after reading your post, I decided to explore the Rochell web cam. Clicked on the link, and it came up immediately, no additional log in necessary.
Wonder if your alternately accessing the site with both you computer and handheld is tripping up some anti-haxor barrier? (similar to how google now scolds you for logging onto g-mail with an "unfamiliar device")
Lithonia OperatorAs for the Trains site, it would appear that all I'm worthy of now is News Wire and the Rochelle webcam. Correct? And on the Classic Trains site, it would appear that all I'm worthy of now is Photo of the Day and ... the Rochelle webcam. Correct?
I can also look at the Trains Blogs.
Are you guys using the same email/password combo for both Trains.com and for this forum?
Lithonia OperatorAre you guys using the same email/password combo for both Trains.com and for this forum?
Newswire, Blogs, Rochelle webcam, and this forum....all on a single log in.
I guess that "living right" has finally paid-off?
Convicted One Lithonia Operator Are you guys using the same email/password combo for both Trains.com and for this forum? Newswire, Blogs, Rochelle webcam, and this forum....all on a single log in. I guess that "living right" has finally paid-off?
Lithonia Operator Are you guys using the same email/password combo for both Trains.com and for this forum?
Yeah, must be the living right. I'm not sure I'm willing to go that far.
Are you getting the "you have x stories left" countdown? Or is the part you CAN see unrestricted?
Lithonia OperatorAre you getting the "you have x stories left" countdown?
Do you suppose you have run afoul of their "paywall"? And by that,... I'm curious if you may have deleted some cookie that proves you paid, and having exhausted your free allotment,.. are now getting the "bums rush"?
The internet is a funny place. Sometimes I suspect the "gatekeepers" break things intentionally, knowing that we will abandon common sense and start clicking on things we normally would know better than to do, in a scorched earth attempt to "fix" whatever has stopped working for us.
ChuckHawkinsPerhaps there is a time limit associated with Kalmbach cookies?
Well, you know what happens when you try and save a file to a directory already containing a file by the exact same name... Cookies are files.
But, if you just built a new feature into your website that is dependent upon an "enhanced" verson of a legacy cookie....guess what happens? "cookie(2)" doesn't get the call
IT seems we are all eing sucked into "The I.T. Internet Game of who has the better IDEA ?" {or will we keep; it 'free' or monitize it) ? For the time since the Intrnet was invented by 'Al Gore' in the early 1990's
The 'Geeks' have been in a race to find the 'pot of gold' for the Internet. Rainbow.
The rest of us just have to wait til the 'bill' arrives.
BaltACID
.. and the picture shows why.
the man from Alto Ona:
I get you so many Magazines to burry you - how's that?
Good nite
Sleep tite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLS0Med0s6E
Great - isn't it !?
Lithonia Operator'm not sure I'm willing to go that far.
Well, I'm guessing that you are all fixed now? Suddenly I have to log in each time I visit.
Convicted One Lithonia Operator 'm not sure I'm willing to go that far. Well, I'm guessing that you are all fixed now? Suddenly I have to log in each time I visit.
Lithonia Operator 'm not sure I'm willing to go that far.
I'm not having to log into this forum, even on my phone now. But I am still unable to access News Wire after 8 stories in a month. When I try the log-in that's intended to get your magazine-subscriber benefits, it says my credentials are wrong, even though I'm using the combo that gets me into here.
I wrote the customer service dept., have not gotten any answer.
Well, it's so good to see that your boat-rocking finally got some results.
Of course ....what WAS working fine for me,.... is now broken. But I expected that.
Not the end of the world, mind you. But I suspected that once we got the monkeys turning knobs, what had been working fine for me, was sure to change.
Cleared my cookies and was able to sign in again.
SD60MAC9500 Cleared my cookies and was able to sign in again.
Interesting, I did a cookie clear this morning and it took me two tries to sign in.
Sara T the man from Alto Ona: I get you so many Magazines to burry you - how's that? Good nite Sleep tite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLS0Med0s6E Great - isn't it !?
Emerson, Lake and Palmer? Never mind them, it's Richie Blackmore's birthday today!
"Who's he?" you ask? The guy who invented the most famous 12 note intro in rock history, and here it is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikGyZh0VbPQ
My word, was that really 49 years ago? Where did the years go?
Lithonia Operator When I try the log-in that's intended to get your magazine-subscriber benefits, it says my credentials are wrong, even though I'm using the combo that gets me into here.
Interesting that despite my new "hurdle", once logged in I can access news wire with no additional log-in necessary. My familiarity with Stephens' article about the CP-KCS merger and the angst over the voting trust aspect being proof that I ain't a foolin.
Flintlock76 Never mind them, it's Richie Blackmore's birthday today! "Who's he?" you ask?
Seems an outrage that anyone would ever have to ask. Blackmore has always been a fav of mine.
I saw Sabbath live playing your linked tune as part of their encore back in '84....and it might have actually been better their way. Mostly a bass thing.
Lithonia Operator I'm not having to log into this forum, even on my phone now. But I am still unable to access News Wire after 8 stories in a month. When I try the log-in that's intended to get your magazine-subscriber benefits, it says my credentials are wrong, even though I'm using the combo that gets me into here. I wrote the customer service dept., have not gotten any answer.
blue streak 1Something about deleting cookies which internet directions do not work. + something about deleting history. That sucks !!!
Assuming you are using Windows? Have you tried "C Cleaner"? It is capable of lighting the fire that purifies. It does a pretty thorough job. But make sure you have a written copy of all the log on IDs and passwords that go along with them, for any websites you regularly visit. Because to do it right you have to pretty much blitz everything. Probably a good idea to make a back-up of all your bookmarks/Favorites too, just to play safe... just "in case".
Typically I had to even go out and get anew browser themes, etc that adorn the browsers. I'll also do a pretty good job of "unjunking" your registry (which is a seperate operation)
It has worked for me when nothing else would.
Personal opinion: Much of the trouble many users encounter when trying to surgically doctor their cookies, history, and cache is that they try to save things that end up sabotaging their efforts to start anew. Using C Cleaner is a nuclear option, but it usually gets the job done, very thorough.
https://www.ccleaner.com/
Firelock,
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikGyZh0VbPQ
My word, was that really 49 years ago? Where did the years go?<<
Oohh, yeah: Deep Purple, Smoke on the Water!
I had always imagined there was a big roundhouse near the shores of a lake and the smoke from the locomotives would often drift over the water, and when it did, fishermen would cough and turn to go home and leave te fish in the water.
How would you have reacted when on the platform, knocking on the cabin side of an 012 Pacific to ask for a footplate ride and on the window high up a figure would appear like Richie Blackmore, with wild outfit and bearded face: "What U want !"
And they had another major piece:
Child in time
Lyrics:
Sweet child in time, you'll see the line
Line that's drawn between good and bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, ooh taking toll
If you've been bad - Oh Lord I bet you have
And you've not been hit oh by flying lead
You'd better close your eyes, aahaouho bow your head
Wait for the ricochet
Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo..
Aaa-aaa-aaa..
Oh, I wanna hear you sing..
Oaoh..
AAA-AAA-AAA!!
Bullets flying, mm taking toll
If you've been bad - Lord I bet you have
You'd better close your eyes, aahaao bow your head
Oh, I gotta hear you sing..
Oh..
Oh..god oh no..oh god no..oh..ah..no ah..AAh..oh..AAWAAH!!..oh
Besides all that ooh and aaah it was a geat song! I remember the mother of a classmate had a huge record collection, among them a number of Deep Purple, also Doors, Black Sabath, Yes .. She let us hear records under the condition we handled the disks like crystals and we spent whole afternoons in worlds far away, then far, far away, and finally so far away we almost got lost and finally had a loooong-looong way home! Oh,yes: "The long and winding road" from the Beatles we heard on our way back home ..
Sara T.
It gets stranger by the day. Have been a print subscriber since 1971. Today when I was logged in I could not read the news wire as I had my 8 views, despite being a subscriber. But, when I log out, then I can read all the articles and the comments. Go figure, Kalmbach doesn't.
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