Popular Post Ben Alder Posted January 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2023 The loss of images has been a great blow to the forum in general, and has rendered my previous posts and threads more or less meaningless. Replacing images is impractical - I deleted many as I went along and those that are left are scattered over several files which would mean an enormous amount of time devoted to any attempted restoration. I started this to an extent by gathering and sorting the Kylesku pics that still are around and that has taken about two weeks of what would have been modelling time. That thread ran to some twenty pages - the building of the current one was a bit shorter but the FNL was over fifty pages, a daunting length. I did start to restore some from just before the cut off point for image loss, but they vanished in one of the hiccups that the site went through which further dissuaded me from any further efforts. The incompleteness of all this has been chewing away at me for months now, so at the start of the month I sat down and read through all my threads, and salvaged what I could from them with a view to some form of Mk11 version which wasn't much TBH, and this week made the decision to close them all, which has been a weight off my mind. Any future posts are going to start from this point in time, but I have become dissatisfied with several aspects of the forum lately, so think that a rest will be beneficial for me, and will give more modelling time as well....It has been a bit of a wrench to see ten years work go, but that's the nature of the digital beast - all my pre 2009 Kyle work went when the old site wasn't included in whatever upgrade happened some time ago, so it wasn't as if it was an unknown possibility. Sorry for the removal of everything, but onwards and upwards, I guess.... That was the bad news.....the good news is that I have been running a parallel topic on Your Model Railway, in a condensed version since the start of the build of Helmsdale, and previous progress can be seen there - same names as here - Far North LIne and Ben Alder - and since 2014, another thread on the same subject on Western Thunder. This one has been more sporadic but better than nothing; again same user title and name. I have also recently posted a pictorial summary of Kylesku on it as a trial - a Look Back at Kylesku and The Mound- realised its ten years plus since I dismantled it and it was quite nostalgic to see it again, although it is all of its last two years of existence. Well, apart from all this, I can only wish everyone a Good New Year, and whatever it holds, that railway modelling will provide some relaxation and pleasure for us all. 2 1 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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