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Posted - January 03 2019 : 7:46:20 PM
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Bout two weeks ago, siding. Nice to see you! I've been emailing, when I can, members who have a listed email address. Also, I've been quietly spreading the word on places like the Train Board and Model Railroad Forum.
How did you find out?
Prolly going to take a while for membership to recover, as when a Google search of
TF is put it in, one typically sees a large entry that this site was closed.
Please spread the word!
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Posted - January 03 2019 : 8:26:40 PM
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Found out the same way I find things online
by accident
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Posted - January 03 2019 : 9:17:34 PM
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Welcome back, I found out by clicking my Tyco Forum bookmark on a whim on Christmas. Best X-mass gift ever!
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Posted - January 03 2019 : 10:45:47 PM
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Welcome Back, thesiding!!
I actually found out from a friend that the TF was once again, alive.
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." - Matthew 5:16
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Posted - January 04 2019 : 04:56:36 AM
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I went through the entire member list, and anybody with 100 or more
posts, with an email contact, I emailed: "The TF is BACK!" I can only
assume that particular email link works. The big problem is that there
are these big headliners that say The TF is gone. I've posted to a few
of those sites, to spread the happy news, but for reasons not clear
to me those big headliners are big and permanent.
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Posted - January 06 2019 : 7:03:31 PM
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quote:Welcome back, I found out by clicking my Tyco Forum bookmark on a whim on Christmas. Best X-mass gift ever!
Originally posted by Srenchin - January 03 2019 : 9:17:34 PM
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So did I on 1/5/19....
I missed this site!
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Posted - January 06 2019 : 9:32:51 PM
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| I found out via a post on the other tyco forum. (Tycodepot)
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Posted - January 06 2019 : 9:49:39 PM
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I found out via another forum, either the Railwire or Trainboard where I go for N scale and some HO.
Yay!
Doug
Atlas First Generation Motive Power and Treble-O-Lectric. Click on the link:
www.irwinsjournal.com/a1g/a1glocos/
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Posted - January 07 2019 : 05:19:04 AM
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| Whoo Hoo!
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Posted - January 07 2019 : 10:39:41 AM
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quote:I went through the entire member list, and anybody with 100 or more
posts, with an email contact, I emailed: "The TF is BACK!" I can only
assume that particular email link works.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â January 04 2019Â :Â 04:56:36 AM
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I did not get any emails from you or this site. I just checked and the email I have listed is correct. I did find out from a posting on another site.
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Posted - January 07 2019 : 10:41:24 AM
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quote:I went through the entire member list, and anybody with 100 or more
posts, with an email contact, I emailed: "The TF is BACK!" I can only
assume that particular email link works.
Originally posted by Chops124 - January 04 2019 : 04:56:36 AM
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I did not get any emails from you or this site. I just checked and the email I have listed is correct. I did find out from a posting on another site.
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Posted - January 07 2019 : 11:39:47 PM
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Welcome Back!!! My favourite forum...
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Posted - January 09 2019 : 01:12:17 AM
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Little by little the crew is returning! Happy day for me! I posted a very
brief thread on another site, which is quite good in many ways, but
not as good as this great site. After a few replies the thread was
closed as they do not wish to discuss other sites, in any positive, or
negative light. I can understand why, still, I wish they would remove
that damned sticky that says "Tyco Forums is Closed." Would it be
generally permissible to ask their admin if they can remove that
sticky, or would that set off an another manure storm?? Same for
another large, established model rail site.
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Posted - January 09 2019 : 01:20:20 AM
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This site is more relaxed and friendly than any other model train forum.
You will not see posts deleted or members banned for trivial reasons on this great forum.
Everyone here is treated as a equal member.
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Posted - January 09 2019 : 01:44:01 AM
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I see this thread is in Locomotive of the Week section.
Here is a photo of one of my engines.
Lionel HO Polar Express steam engine. Has sound effects.
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Posted - January 09 2019 : 8:29:51 PM
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quote:Little by little the crew is returning! Happy day for me! I posted a very
brief thread on another site, which is quite good in many ways, but
not as good as this great site. After a few replies the thread was
closed as they do not wish to discuss other sites, in any positive, or
negative light. I can understand why, still, I wish they would remove
that damned sticky that says "Tyco Forums is Closed." Would it be
generally permissible to ask their admin if they can remove that
sticky, or would that set off an another manure storm?? Same for
another large, established model rail site.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â January 09 2019Â :Â 01:12:17 AM
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I tried to get into "That Forum" but I soon got tired of reading posts from people putting down this forum.
Proudly keeping Tyco Pluggers out of landfills since 2016
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Posted - January 10 2019 : 1:12:32 PM
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quote: quote:Little by little the crew is returning! Happy day for me! I posted a very
brief thread on another site, which is quite good in many ways, but
not as good as this great site. After a few replies the thread was
closed as they do not wish to discuss other sites, in any positive, or
negative light. I can understand why, still, I wish they would remove
that damned sticky that says "Tyco Forums is Closed." Would it be
generally permissible to ask their admin if they can remove that
sticky, or would that set off an another manure storm?? Same for
another large, established model rail site.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â January 09 2019Â :Â 01:12:17 AM
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I tried to get into "That Forum" but I soon got tired of reading posts from people putting down this forum.
Originally posted by Srenchin - January 09 2019 : 8:29:51 PM
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well I was 1 strike away from being banned so I just upped & quit!  
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Posted - January 11 2019 : 09:19:58 AM
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quote: quote: quote:Little by little the crew is returning! Happy day for me! I posted a very
brief thread on another site, which is quite good in many ways, but
not as good as this great site. After a few replies the thread was
closed as they do not wish to discuss other sites, in any positive, or
negative light. I can understand why, still, I wish they would remove
that damned sticky that says "Tyco Forums is Closed." Would it be
generally permissible to ask their admin if they can remove that
sticky, or would that set off an another manure storm?? Same for
another large, established model rail site.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â January 09 2019Â :Â 01:12:17 AM
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I tried to get into "That Forum" but I soon got tired of reading posts from people putting down this forum.
Originally posted by Srenchin - January 09 2019 : 8:29:51 PM
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well I was 1 strike away from being banned so I just upped & quit!
Originally posted by microbusss - January 10 2019 : 1:12:32 PM
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Uh oh, what happened?
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Posted - January 11 2019 : 09:45:16 AM
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Let's not drag up drama and create bad blood between sites please..... I enjoy both.
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
純那
yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - January 13 2019 : 4:33:16 PM
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I too found out by accident yesterday. I was Googling something and a link came for a TF location, so I thought "Oh well!" and gave it a go!
I am really pleased to see it is back, as I love this Forum, however after a few hours it slipped away again like Brigadoon....and I got a white screen......
Luckily I was able to view TF again today and I am really glad that it back, as there a wealth of information on here and I was gutted when I thought it was lost. Most importantly there is the very welcoming and helpful membership that are always ready to share experience and officer advice and encouragement.
Today is the first time that I have been able to log in, for many months. I went round in a few circles before I got back in, but got logged in, eventually! I wonder, if there something wrong that is causing all the downtime?
Is there anything I can do, or contribute to keep it running?
Has anyone found out why it all went down?
I had joined the other place, but must have somehow missed the posting that TF was back.
Anyway - Glad to be back!
James
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Posted - January 14 2019 : 09:45:47 AM
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I think the long downtime was simply due to well, this place is pretty much a dinosaur as far as websites go. Look at the bottom, Snitz Forum 2000 and Image Forums 2001. The site's running on 17-18 year old architecture that needs a bit of coaxing and a decent chunk of maintenance to keep going. Other forums I visit tend to use much newer or at least updated architectures- primarily ProBoards (TycoDepot, DieselDetailer, The Rustbucket, Atlas Rescue Forum) or Invision Community (Narrow Gauge Railway Modelling Online). There's nothing wrong with this older architecture, I should mention. I quite like it in many ways, it's simple and fairly dependable. (Until it isn't). It's just older software and needs more care than the modern stuff.
sim-al2
Also since they cut track maintaince the trains had huge trouble making over the railroad by the end
純那
yeah
They did a Rock Island volountarily
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Posted - January 14 2019 : 11:26:03 PM
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I was at work killing sometime and going thru my favorites and click on this site, and pow, it popped up. Couldn't wait to get home and log in. This was the first forum that I joined and I really like it. Chops I really missed your videos of your layout. Especially the background music you play.
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Posted - January 15 2019 : 08:09:23 AM
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Thanks, man. I have a lot of fun doing them. Right now I am
working on a video in honor of Walt. Shot four hours of
footage, and it all was wrong, so delete, delete, delete,
and time to reshoot! This was not conceivable back in the
70's!
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Posted - January 15 2019 : 08:55:52 AM
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With me in the same day two people contacted me Kenny and Richie, catfordken and WKS, I got back that day. Please forgive me for I have forgotten the day as I do now many other things.
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Posted - January 20 2019 : 03:55:46 AM
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Having just accidentally clicked on the bookmark I thought was long dead, I was shocked when I didn't see a "Firefox can't establish a connection" message! :)
Due to the weather hovering between 90 and 110°F since December I haven't had any trains running, just lots of fans while hoping the capacitors in my computers, monitors and TVs don't all pop at once.
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Posted - January 21 2019 : 5:44:29 PM
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It came back December 20. I found out on December 21.
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Posted - January 21 2019 : 7:49:55 PM
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| Another 1 comes back to the Mother Ship! Welcome back!
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Posted - February 13 2019 : 09:34:43 AM
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quote:Found out the same way I find things online
by accident
Originally posted by thesiding - January 03 2019 : 8:26:40 PM
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I happened to google Tony Lucio and I clicked on a pic that lead me back to the forum. I thought that it would lead to a dead end as it had before, but no... It is back! Woo Hoo!
Sean
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Posted - February 13 2019 : 5:10:37 PM
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Welcome Back!
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Posted - February 22 2019 : 1:24:17 PM
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Ah, here's the thread where everyone's coming back. Hello again yall! I ended up here from Google Images just now as well.
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Posted - February 22 2019 : 5:36:00 PM
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Posted - August 06 2019 : 11:53:50 AM
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I guess I'm a late bloomer. I just found out last week. I did a Google search and one of the hits was a post on this forum, so I came at it via the home page, and found it back in action. It's good to see the old gang online, again.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - August 06 2019 : 6:26:52 PM
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Another one rides the bus!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QxturUolo
I know its TRAINS we want in here but this one is close enough
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Posted - August 06 2019 : 6:45:49 PM
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quote:I guess I'm a late bloomer. I just found out last week. I did a Google search and one of the hits was a post on this forum, so I came at it via the home page, and found it back in action. It's good to see the old gang online, again.
Originally posted by scsshaggy - August 06 2019 : 11:53:50 AM
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Welcome back to the group Don!
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Posted - August 07 2019 : 9:50:11 PM
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Glad you re-joined us, scsshaggy!
"Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven." - Matthew 5:16
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Posted - August 07 2019 : 10:27:23 PM
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Thanks for the welcome, guys.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - August 07 2019 : 10:31:29 PM
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I echo those sentiments. Nice to see you again Don. Any updates on your Tabor and Waldo layout?
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Posted - August 08 2019 : 10:21:05 AM
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| 'Bout time! Welcome back, Scss!
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Posted - August 08 2019 : 6:16:09 PM
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quote:
I echo those sentiments. Nice to see you again Don. Any updates on your Tabor and Waldo layout?
Originally posted by wks - August 07 2019 : 10:31:29 PM
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A few things have happened, but it'll be a couple of weeks before I can post much of anything, because I'll be on the road on vacation, soon.
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