gpharoAs mentioned, search your topic followed by cs.trains on Google
I have found that using site:cs.trains.com after your keywords will bring the best results.
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
For example,
https://tinyurl.com/s8lmqbq
Cheers, Ed
richhotrain rrinker The other forum I am on (not railroad related) which has what I do think is vastly superior software to this, is also very picky about necro threads - but they do have one thing going for them - if you attempt to post a reply to a thread that has had no activity for a significant amount of time, it pops up a notice that says so and urges you to reconsider starting a new thread. It also notifies you if, while you were composing your reply, someone else has posted a reply to the same thread and gives you the opportunity to go back and read the new reply(ies) before posting yours. There you go, now you're talking. I like that approach a lot. Rich
rrinker The other forum I am on (not railroad related) which has what I do think is vastly superior software to this, is also very picky about necro threads - but they do have one thing going for them - if you attempt to post a reply to a thread that has had no activity for a significant amount of time, it pops up a notice that says so and urges you to reconsider starting a new thread. It also notifies you if, while you were composing your reply, someone else has posted a reply to the same thread and gives you the opportunity to go back and read the new reply(ies) before posting yours.
The other forum I am on (not railroad related) which has what I do think is vastly superior software to this, is also very picky about necro threads - but they do have one thing going for them - if you attempt to post a reply to a thread that has had no activity for a significant amount of time, it pops up a notice that says so and urges you to reconsider starting a new thread. It also notifies you if, while you were composing your reply, someone else has posted a reply to the same thread and gives you the opportunity to go back and read the new reply(ies) before posting yours.
There you go, now you're talking. I like that approach a lot.
Rich
The boating forum software I mentioned previously also gives that notice on older threads.
Brian
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There is a major upgrade to the Trains.com group of websites in the works, which we hope will include the Forum software. In the meantime, because of the work being done on this project, no resources will be allocated to fixing the old Forum software. Therefore, there's no point in continuing to point out all the things about the Forum that are broken. Trust me, we are already too aware of them. So this thread is being locked.
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