Gord - I'm interested.  I

Gord - I'm interested.  I model the Northern lower peninsula of Michigan between 1890 and 1905.

Paul E. Sojka

Excellent

Hi Paul.  Glad to see your post.  I model the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Kootenay Lakes area of British Columbia, 1900-1920 or so.

Thanks for the reply.

Cheers,

Gord

I have mixed feelings about splintering things too much

I have mixed feelings about splintering up the MRH website too much. As it is now it's easy to use the recent posts list to find most anything of interest.

I'm curious, what's the reason for wanting to carve off a separate area just for steam era modeling? Do you think you'd like to avoid having the growler lovers involved? Or are you more interested in making steam content easier to find in among the rest?

If the latter, then it would be easiest to just create a steam loco and diesel loco category. Then all you would need to do is click the category and shazzam! Only posts related to steam locos would appear.

Steam Modeling Catagory

I agree that having a separate catagory for steam modeling would be easier for going to subjects of specific interest. When currently navigating the various boards I never think to use the search function and doing so, while getting you specific info that you are looking for, never exposes you to other topics or subjects that may be of interest in your particular area of modelling.

Right now there are 31 pages of posts under "Locos and rolling Stock" containing over 6700 posts. I have been a member since January and trying to catch up on all these postings and stay current with new posts is daunting. I am modeling both steam and early diesel, but steam is my passion.

Just my 2 cents worth.

Okay, done.

Okay, we've added new Steam Locos and Diesel Locos categories so you can view posts that only apply to those categories - sort of a virtual forum, if you will.

Category

Hi Joe;

You're absolutely correct.  I couldn't find the right words for what I was trying to say.  I think it would be terrific if you could add another category.

My apologies for the ambiguity of my post.  Personally, I just want a better, faster way to find steam related posts, blogs and links through this website (my favourite, by the way).

Thanks for weighing in on this.

Gord

You are the man!

Thanks very much, Joe.  Let's see if it'll fly.

Cheers,

Gord

Steam

Glad to see it! I model the transition era, but primarily a steam guy...

What's a category?

Posting to a Catagory

When you click on "New Topic" the resulting screen asks you for a Board and a Category. You choose what catagory the post is listed under, not the board. If you don't pick one, I don't know what the board defaults to.

I will give you an example

I will post an example in a new thread ... watch for it.

Kootenay Lake.

Interesting Gord. I am in the middle of building a layout of C.P. Rails barge operation on Kootenay Lake in the transistion era. One of my mysteries is what ever happened to the tug Melinda Jane. As a kid back in the 60s I watched her take the rail cars from Proctor up the lake. We would even get Dad to take us up the lake and watch as they transfered cars at the Blue Bell Mine. My Dad was a rail fan too and got to know the captain. We were lucky enough to take a few trips up the lake on her. Looking forward in following your posts.

Cheers,

Barry