shortliner Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Copied across Atlas Model Railroad Co. Inc. announced today that it will discontinue its model railroad forums, http://forum.atlasrr.com/ effective Tuesday, May 1st. In making the announcement Atlas CEO, Tom Haedrich explained the decision behind the shut down as, “a result of the ever-increasing amount of time and other valuable resources expended to monitor and administer the forums. Besides the monthly costs of bandwidth, software and service providers, Atlas dedicates a significant amount of precious R&D staff time responding both on and offline to forum based issues and problems. It’s time that Atlas reestablished these limited resources, in particular valued R&D employee time, toward increased efforts at developing new and innovative model railroad products â€, Haedrich said. Atlas began its forum pages approximately 15 years ago. The archive section of the forums will remain available to users for the near future. Atlas will remain active on social media sites including: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Atlas Moderator Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I tried to re-format your link Jack as it included a comma; I still get a 404 error from the link. Edit - got it - http://forum.atlasrr.com/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'd only recently started looking at the atlas forum and while it does seem to host the usual amount of wish listers and more than the usual amount of malcontents it does also have sone useful and interesting info. I hope Atlas can archive permanently rather than just switch if off Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 Sorry, Andy - don't know where that came from! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Accurascale Fran Posted April 26, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'll miss the Sunday photo fun threads most of all, they were a brilliant idea. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'm wondering whether to contact Atlas and get them to send to me any relevant news items of interest to Forums... Would that be kosher, I wonder? Thoughts welcomed. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Sounds like a plan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Grant 4472 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I used to follow and post in the Atlas HO forum a lot, but the level of discussion had deteriorated a lot in recent months and there was little of interest to me. As well as the Sunday photo threads, it was/is the quickest way to get a loco/RR-specific question answered and is still the busiest forum on the interweb Jon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redkiterail Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'm wondering whether to contact Atlas and get them to send to me any relevant news items of interest to Forums... Would that be kosher, I wonder? Thoughts welcomed. Best, Pete. Ask them to send it to Andy York like Bachmann and Hornby do Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 I'm about 10 miles from their offices.....I will ask Andy though. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 More than happy for Pete to be a nominated point of contact. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Fine with me. I'll just say that I am the "Moderator of the USA & Canadian Railroads Group for RMWeb" - and then drop your name Andy should they want to verify........of course I'll probably be out on my ear..... Cheers, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfsboy Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 There seem to be a lot of people not enjoying model railroading/Railways these days .I can believe all the criticism and moans but then I suppose this a moan too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 There seem to be a lot of people not enjoying model railroading/Railways these days .I can believe all the criticism and moans but then I suppose this a moan too Dear Alf, Like the old sawby says "a bad day playing trains beats a good day at the office..." Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
signalmaintainer Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 I'd only recently started looking at the atlas forum and while it does seem to host the usual amount of wish listers and more than the usual amount of malcontents it does also have sone useful and interesting info. I hope Atlas can archive permanently rather than just switch if off Aside from a few brief forays, I've stayed away from the Atlas site after being a busy poster from 2002 to around 2007. Over the past several years I'd peek in every few weeks only to quick-view the latest Sunday Night Photo Funs, to count how many new topics had been locked out, who'd been kicked off lately, or how many trivial tempests were raging in the proverbial teapots. When I compared this site to Atlas's, the choice of where to spend my time was quite clear: The quality of material, discussion, information, and insight makes RMWeb, for me, an indispensable part of my hobby. The Atlas site never reached that level for me. I'm glad Atlas has decided to focus more on what they do best, and I've never been disappointed with the quality of their products or customer service. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Without wishing to knock a Forum I've never visited, I think it says a great deal about this Group within RMweb that despite being an Enthusiast of US trains and railroads, I don't actually belong to any US-based Forum; I follow Lance Mindheim's blog, and use the Picture sites like Railroad Picture Archives, Railpictures.net, and Fallen Flags, but no Forums, except for a while I was on the now-defunct Model Railroads Weathered site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted May 1, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 1, 2012 This one is worth a look: http://freerails.com Like RMweb, it's in the care of Jim Hale in Columbus. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rouse2037 Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Maybe take a look too at one of my favorites www.trainlife.com Atlas folk seem to be signing up Roger Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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