Two really cool forums you should check out.

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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We (the very few members of these forums) are looking for some more members and i thought this would be a good place to let people know about them. first up is,
Lords of the high iron http://s3.phpbbforfree.com/forums/hickssforum.html
and
Western rail http://s3.phpbbforfree.com/forums/westernrail.html

thanks!

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thanks to those who read this and joined one of these forums.

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I am a member of both, and will say they are great. On the Lords of the High Iron we are even haveing a photo contest you are free to enter.

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new forum up and running:http://s3.phpbbforfree.com/forums/modeltrainchat.html

might try that one too, i want to get more than one member (me)
hope bergie don’t mind this, i don’t want my account deleted.

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I don’t think you’ll get your account deleted.

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Too many cooks spoil the soup.

For business purposes I’m a member of several listserves (forums) each devoted to a seperate topic where user quesitons can really be focused.

I’ll love reading model train forums but then you don’t really know where to post a question where it will be seen by more people and the chances of getting answers is greater.

Well, that’ just my take on this.

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The way I go if I really want answers is posting on as many forums as possible, and on the first forum that was mentioned, you get more people knowledgable in areas other than trains, it’s far more general discussion, but still has a pertty good area for railfans and model railroaders!
I confess, the first one is mine…I guess that’s why I’m editing this to keep 'er up there!

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yeah, I’m trying to keep this up there for a while.

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i am a staff member at http://2guyzandsumtrains.com/index.php cool site with how-to’s and a chat room

tom

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I wi***here was only 1 forum on trains. The reason being is because then you would have hundreds of people reading your forum rather than everybody being scattered onto every other website. I dislike all these other forum websites starting up. Let’s just have a main one and that is it. If you also have 1 you get to know everybody better. STAY WITH 1

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Well, you’d better get used to it. I belong to at least seven, and there are many more I visit as a “guest.”

Matt

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2 guys and sum trains is a pretty cool website,even without joining the forum, there’s lots of information there, and great creative examples of MR stuff

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i found another good forum, its all about layouts and layout planning in different scales
some for sale or trade items.

http://www.layoutparty.disisus.com/index.php

it too has a chatroom

tom

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Finlay,
There used to be only one forum for model trains on the internet. It was rec.models.railroad, the newsgroup. It still exists, but now it’s a mere shadow of it’s former importance.

Paul A. Cutler III

Weather Or No Go New Haven

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Might as well add my forum to the list…

http://www.thewhistlepost.com

Thanks for stopping by!

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Man that would be nice in a perfect world, but sadly people get jelious and moody and are driven away or quit and start their own with a new set of rules. If they were right their site grows and forces or influences the other site(s) to change their rules/get with the program/get off their horse, or the new site fails. Competition is making the more read sites better as they learn and grow. I remember a time when you couldn’t even post pictures on model forums and another time when you had to supply your own picture host, like is still being done here matter of fact. So the system is working I guess. Fred [:D]

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Although, now I am registered on these forums