Model Train Journal

Some years ago, members of the MTF Forum created one of the most comprehensive (and easy to use) photo library of PostWar Lionel in an on-going thread.

I found it to be really useful in that it contained pix of Lionel pieces from all over the country - not to mention from a variety of collections. And that's something that the P/W commercial photo books do not contain. I was able to submit several pix of the PostWar pieces that I have that are original and unusual.

In any case, does someone have that thread on "speed dial"? I'm not having great luck in finding it.

Thanks!

It probably got axed in one of the purges.

J. S. Bach wrote:It probably got axed in one of the purges.

Now that would be horrible.

What it more likely is, is sad reality. The Net is a very transient entity, and If there is something I really want to keep access to, I save it to my own personal space, be it a file or image. As they say: Here today, gone tomorrow. One of these days it will all fall on it's arse, and then where will we be? I'd rather have a book!

I remember the Postwar Photo Thread well. I think that was purged almost 10 years ago. I do not think there is a way to access old Phpbb board pages once they have been cleared

is this what you are looking for?


http://postwarlionel.com/

If not, try searching archive.org for for the appropriate URL's. It may still be available but at a different address?

chuck wrote:is this what you are looking for?


http://postwarlionel.com/

If not, try searching archive.org for for the appropriate URL's. It may still be available but at a different address?

Thanks, Chuck! Great and very useful resource that I think I'll have to use, but it's not the MTJ one.

I guess the MTJ thread rode off into the cyber sunset.

What I liked about the MTJ photo "gallery" was that the pix came from many, many collections.

Thanks, All!!!

wayback machine!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120306174 ... 3d48098e6d

page one of 89. Reasonably certain you can figure out how to view the rest.

Next page is not archived.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mo ... m/phpBB3/*
all the archived pages, at least 9 pages.

ScaleCraft wrote:wayback machine!

https://web.archive.org/web/20120306174 ... 3d48098e6d

page one of 89. Reasonably certain you can figure out how to view the rest.

Next page is not archived.

THANKS!

Started by Frank53 on 30 October 2007. Indeed, 89 pages of useful info!

Thanks!!

I think Frank 53 removed it when he left MTJ.
Many of the photos were from him and his friends that started a different forum that is now gone. I think.

o-gauge hobbyist, wasn't it? Doesn't work any more. I think it morphed to ModelTrainForum or something.

ScaleCraft wrote:o-gauge hobbyist, wasn't it? Doesn't work any more. I think it morphed to ModelTrainForum or something.

Model Train Forum was around before 53s forum and still is going.. 53s forum just died.

O-Gauge Hobbyist died as the volume of posts dropped sharply after Frank changed gears in his interests. The 3-rail forum here seems likely headed for the same place.

healey36 wrote:O-Gauge Hobbyist died as the volume of posts dropped sharply after Frank changed gears in his interests. The 3-rail forum here seems likely headed for the same place.

That's why we have.......THREAD DRIFT!