Does anyone else have the same problems I do when trying to search the MMR site? Recently I searched for information on train depots and the site gave me references to box cars, train shows and many other things completely unrelated to my search. It did locate two articles.
You may want to only search the most descriptive word “depot” or “stations.” If you search “train depot” you will get hits for train as well as depot. That is why anything that has train in it is coming up.
Even with just ‘depot’ you’re going to bring up references to Home Depot or anything else with ‘depot’ in it.
Which search are you trying to use? If you use the one at the top of the page called “search this site”, you probably won’t get any sort of satisfactory result. But if you scroll down toward the bottom of the page, there is another search box called “search our community”. In this box there is a drop down that lets you search either in this forum, in all the Model Railroader forums, or “the entire community”. I believe that this last selection lets you search in all the Kalmback railroad related forums.
Note that you will be searching in forums, so what you will really be searching is the discussions that people have had on various topics. So if what you are looking for was not discussed by someone, it isn’t going to be there.
If you are looking for magazine articles, then look at the top of the page in the gray band. There is a selection called “resources”. If you put the mouse pointer there, one of the drop down selections is “magazine index”. If you go there, you can search for articles that have been printed in many different railroad magazines.
And, no, I don’t think that Home Depot will come up in any of the search boxes I’ve mentioned, unless someone has either modeled one or has complained about one in a forum. A Google search is a different story.
Search 101 - when you enter two words in a search engine, it may treat it as phrase, as an implicit AND or as an implicit OR.
train depot can be interpreted as:
a) “train depot” (will only be true when the word depot follows the word train)
b) “train” AND “depot” (both words are in the text, but not necessarily next to each other)
c) “train” OR “depot” (either of the words are in the text, but not necessarily both)
The last is the default model used by the search engine on this site. If you want to look for the phrase “train depot”, enclose your phrase in quotation marks. Or cut back to just “depot”. Or try searching for train AND depot.
Stein