What feature do you like the most?
Wait, I take that back - I said product videos - but the forum is really my favorite 
The CTT Forum has Become a favorite of mine.Really do like the Pot of Coffee Thread as it is very humorous especially Jim Duda’s Posts and Chief Eagles humor. One of these days it should be printed in book form. It may become a New York Times Bestseller ![:)]…Keith
I like the flame wars best but you did not have that category so I chose Forums as second best.
This was a very interesting question for me, because I just realized that I COULD access the Forum via the web page. I access the CTT Forum about every 2-4 hours a day (home all day with disability for almost 8 months). I always access it directly via a bookmark, and do not consider that I am accessing the web page at the same time. When I go to the web page directly, I am looking for all the other stuff, especially products and hobby news.
I said the contents page, but I read everything with the exception of the videos ( I use windows 95-too slow). I check back on the forum topic every couple of days just to keep up with the new comments. A question to the readership, if I may: Does anyone manufacture a LARGE Church in O gauge? I’m not talking about MTH or Model Products or Plasticville, I need something to fit in a CITY, along the lines of a Cathedral, maybe one square foot in size. Thanks.
I voted for PDFs of past stories because they’re informative. As a new member and someone new to the hobby, I want to get up to speed and learn as much as I can as fast as I can.
Ideally, I’d like to see a page on the CTT site devoted to the basics, and perhaps a little beyond the basics, of engine maintenance and repair, wiring, benchwork, troubleshooting, etc. Newbies would be very grateful for that kind of info all in one place, and I’d assume the vetrans of the forums would as well, since they wouldn’t have to keep explaining these things to the new people.
Jim
Forums only, I almost never look at the other stuff.
I almost never go to the main page. I go directly to “Toy train operating and collecting”.
I like the whole site, but this forum is my favorite part of it.
I have a customized icon that takes me directly to the forum.
CTT Forum only…I think we do a pretty good job of balancing the TRAIN ONLY and the non-train related subjects. Like Buckeye, I have a shortcut on my desktop that takes me directly here…
[dinner] My wife just told me ,if I could teach the computer to cook,that I probably would be reading the forum (all the time)[:D]
I like the forums but I think they have a major flaw. They need to have more than one catagory. There needs to be an area for questions and answers and a separate area for more personal discussions and community building stuff like the “coffee shop”. Too often I think questions are pushed off the page and down the line by these other discussions. I’ve seen that once this happens the questions are much less likely to be looked at or answered.
I appreiciate that some people spend alot of time in the forum building thier community but I do like to see and ask these questions and statements as well. There is a limited amount of space on the front page that is the only page most look at. In the interest of equal time I am curious why this forum is not devided into different “rooms” like some of the other forums hosted here.
When the furm was set upo, we decided it would be easier to police if all the topics were in a single area.
Without question, I would have to say the forums! There’s a great group of people on here and there’s always something interesting being discussed.
I’m new at this hobby, so I guess right now the CTT Forum.
I have a short cut right to your forum, but also enjoy reading the Product and hobby news and then your teaser about your upcoming issues.
BillFromWayne
The forums are a huge source of information, and have excited me to actually start my layout. I think trains would still be a pipe dream if not for this forum.
Thanks guys and gals.
Tim
My favorite part is the forum[:)].