Assume ...

... that you are modeling North American prototypes?

Link?

Might work better if we knew how to find this.

New SIG

In Facebook type, "Model Trains, Train Sets, Buildings & Layout Concepts" in the search box.

So now I would have to join

So now I would have to join facebook to go to his page? Like the idea, just not interested in the face book thing. Also not interested in needing to do the yahoo groups anymore as I have a different email and I am tired of having several different accounts to keep track of. Since I almost never used the email from yahoo it gets locked and then I am no longer in the groups.

It would be nice if all this media could be accessed from a common account and did not require so much duplication. I get all of my snail mail to one address, you don't need an address of your own to write to me. How about something similar for the web. Use your existing e-mail for everything.

If it is possible to get on there with out another account I am interested if not I'll just miss being there.

Yahoo Groups without yahoo email address

Rob,

You can use your regular non-Yahoo email address to subscribe to any Yahoo group. You simply have to use the 'subscribe' email address of the group to subscribe instead of using the web interface and having to logon with a Yahoo account. Now the subscribe email address for a group can be found on the group's Yahoo page, no logon required: look under the "Group Email Addresses" header.

"It would be nice if all this

"It would be nice if all this media could be accessed from a common account and did not require so much duplication.'

  Yeah, With the blogs and forum posts available here I see no reason to create a separate site to discuss freight cars. Why dilute the potential reader and poster pool? It seems counter productive to create splinter groups outside the MR and MRH sphere of influence if one is trying to promote the hobby since just about everyone reads one or the other of these magazines? .....DaveB

You can subscribe to a Facebook RSS feed

You can subscribe to a Facebook RSS feed without joining. However, if you want to see certain discussions/threads, you do need to go to the facebook page and like the thread. You don't have to belong to Facebook to view a page or to like anything on it.

The RSS feed will keep you updated even without joining. If you'd like to know more about RSS feeds, see our video RSS Feeds for Model Railroaders.

DaveB- There are some very

DaveB-

There are some very talented folks that do not read the magazines or participate on the MR and MRH web sites. It is a lot bigger world out there than you think. There are SIG's popping up all over Facebook these days. I am sure the Facebook fad will eventually go the way of the yahoo group and MySpace...but for now, there is enough there that it is my #1 electronic source of model railroading and railfanning content. MRH has some great content, but on a given day, probably less than 5% of the forum posts here are of interest to me. Conversely, on the Facebook groups, probably 75%-90% of the posts in a group on a given day are of some interest to me because SIG is in my strike zone of interests.

Yahoo groups are dead to me...I have tried several times to get use to the NEO format, and it just does not flow for me. Daily email digests or individual emails seem very 1994-ish to me. 

Jody

 "MRH has some great content,

"MRH has some great content, but on a given day, probably less than 5% of the forum posts here are of interest to me. Conversely, on the Facebook groups, probably 75%-90% of the posts in a group on a given day are of some interest to me because SIG is in my strike zone of interests."

SIG's are great but I'd rather have them here at one easy to find central location than all over the internet. I'd much rather associate with Joe Fugate than Mark Zuckerberg too :> ) ....DaveB

Perhaps the next iteration of the MRH forums ...

... could include a "special" area for the SIGs?  Like DaveB, I think that keeping things under one roof as much as possible could only be a benefit ... just need a roof that everyone can work under ....  

An Astronomy forum that I also spend a good deal of time in (Cloudy Nights) is broken into many broad areas, which are further divided into more specific categories where the members can post individual threads in.  As my interest is mainly ATM, I spend the vast majority of my time in the "ATM, Optics and DIY" section that is small sub-set of "Equipment Discussions".