Actually the title is wrong. All posts should be sent to the MODEL RAILROADER forums. And since when did showing models from the 1950’s become not classic?
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“Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?” William Shakespeare
I’ve only been following this board for about a month now, and mostly read the CTT section. However, there is other info that I pick up on certain things in the other forums, [like this one!] So then why should topics be in the section that it only applies to? For example, the topic about painting rivers and streams. That can apply to any scale, but it’s only in one section, why? It should be listed in all sections! That’s kinda the point of my rant.
Sorry for butting in like this my fellow Classic Trains readers. But do we really need it to say somewhere that this is for Classic Trains and not the best place to ask questions about modelrailroading? That you might have a better chance of getting the answer that you’re looking for at MR, CTR or GR? I like HO scale as well, so I don’t really mind something like this popping up every now and then, not at all. But if you look at the top of the page, you can see links to Trains.com, Model Railroader, Trains, Classic Toy Trains, Garden Railways AND Classic Trains. I know that it’s easy to think that they don’t work as links to respective(?) magazine, I just checked them out myself right now [:D] and behold…laughs…
Anyhoo, there must be quiet a few of us that’s also into modelrailroading as well here…
Right, who wants the talkingstick now?
It’s not a big thing to me, but I think the poster may get a faster response if the model railroad question is posted to the MR, CTT, or GR forums. Perhaps if your not familiar with the Classic Trains Magazine content you might think that this forum is for Lionel and old style model railroad trains.
stubbsO: I cut my teeth on Lionel, bought an American Flyer set and set it up at Navy Pier while in the Navy in '46. Got into HO in 47, added LGB (Large Scale) in '85, and worked as a telegrapher on a railroad from '47 to '52. Currently revamping an HO Varney 2-8-0 Consolidation and have a large scale track set up under my grand piano in the living room; try playing games on your hands and knees at some 79 plus years of age (keeps you young!).
I was one of the charter subscribers to the magazine this Forum is named after. If I want to learn something about Classic Trains, the time that I was a railroader, I log onto this site.
If I want to learn something about trains of today, I log onto the TRAINS forum, a magazine to which I also subscribe.
If i want to check out what large scale is doing, I log onto either MyLargeScale or the Garden Railway forum which is named after another magazine that I buy.
But if if the topic is Lionel, AF, or Marx I check out the Classic Toy Train forum and the Model Railroader forum for HO.
The typical repeat poster on this forum isn’t looking for info on building bridges, rivers, or painting scenery. The 1:1 scale classic train era is the thrust of this forum. I don’t need to waste what time I have left slogging through posts that weren’t well thought out on subjects that are covered more completely by other forums.
Art
Seems to me that it is quite obvious that with the number of posts here that could better find an answer to their question on another forum, the answer to the above question is…
Our education system is sorely lacking!
Only the moderator can control where and what is posted. For that matter, albeit an extreme example is that one is free to post model trains on a Cryptozoology Forum, the only significant difference is A: You are likely to be directed elsewhere B: You chances of a helpful reply are less. C: It muddies an already broad generalization of topics allocated to specific forums.D: If everyone followed that example you would have to check four forums instead of one to find a thread you find interesting. If one wants to post a garden railroad question here…why not? But the larger question is why?