I am new to this site. Even though I have been a model railroader since 1973 I enjoy reading the many topics. One is never too old to learn. I was interested in the tree building clinic. I have had some success with a similiar method. How can I post pictures of my trees and maybe some pictures of the Miatic Central Railroad?[:)]
393…
Go to this thread under Trains.com…
www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20382
Should be helpful.
Happy Railroading
Mark
Just testing to see if this works_
Go to the current page 6 of this forum and look up “How to post pictures to a thread”. I had the same question in early October and I got some very helpful answers. After I succeeded in posting some pictures, I was asked by somebody to walk them through the process step by step so I re-posted the advice given to me and filled in a few things that I had to figure out from the instructions I received. There are other ways to do it but this one worked for me. If you want to keep the information readily available you can add the post to ‘Your Favourites’ by clicking on the grey button on the upper right of the post that says "MORE’. You will have to be logged in to do this.
Dave
Note to the last 2 posters. This thread was dead 5 1/2 years ago. [:-^]
I’m sorry Hamltnblue but I don’t understand your comment.[:^)]
Dave
He means that someone replied to a question that was posted a long time ago - over five years ago.
It is nice that people want to be helpful, but it is not very likely that the original poster still is waiting for an answer five years later - he or she most likely either found the answer elsewhere several years ago.
Clicking on the user name (393nova) I see that Roger Eisner of Nova Scotia posted a grand total of 9 posts in February and March of 2005, and has not posted since. I don’t know why he has not posted the last five years - maybe he lost interest in the hobby, maybe he went elsewhere, maybe he has passed on.
Before responding to a post, look at the date in the upper left hand corner of the post you want to reply to (and the first post in the thread). If the original question was posed years or months ago, and there is just one recent reply, you know that the person who posted the recent reply most likely did not look at the date
It often is better to start a new thread if you want to follow up on a fairly old thread with no recent replies, and then in the text just refer to the old thread - by posting the URL you found the old thread at in your text.
Nothing very negative about warning people that a flurry of new answers to a five year old question most likely is a waste of time.
Smile,
Stein
Hi Stein: Opened my mouth too soon!
Dave
This is not intended as a put down - just an explanation, since this is a thing that crops up on a fairly regular basis.
Look at each post. Each post has a posting date on it. The original (top) post in the thread (which asked about how to post a picture) was posted in march of 2005. Second post was also from march 2005. Then nothing for 5 years.
Then the third poster fairly recently posted “let me try this”, and posted a picture.
The third poster seemingly did not ask how to post pictures (unless he later edited his post), and he seemingly did not try to explain how to post pictures to the first poster’s five year old post - he just posted a picture.
This third poster was the one that resurrected a dead thread. He made two less than optimal choices:
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He was responding to a very old post without acknowledging that he was resurrecting an old thread
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He did not use the trains.com test forum for testing - instead doing a test post in the MR general forum
Then you came in as the fourth poster with general advice on how to post (which seemed like a reply to the original poster, since the third poster seemingly had figured out how to post a picture).
And then Ham came in as the fifth poster, saying (in effect) “hey - you two last guys - are you aware that you are following up a five year old post?”
It is not a big deal - happens quite a bit.
Btw - another tip - if you want to refer people to that other post you made on posting pictures, just make a copy of this text and paste it into your post:
I take my words back Dave