Demise (and hopeful rebirth) of Railroad-Line.com

[deemery]

After a lot of work behind-the-scenes to look at alternatives, funding, etc. the owner/operator of Railroad-Line has announced tomorrow will be its last day.  

A group is working on capturing the data and seeing if we can set up a new Railroad-Line, on a different hosting environment.  The goal would be to reopen in March, but a lot of work has to be done to set up, check out, and establish an environment that has the data but that performs much better than the current environment.  

dave

[PRR Modeler]

Well that truly blows Dave.

[Jerry]

Well that truly blows Dave.

I'll second that Curt!!

Jerry

[elwoodblues]

I'll third it Curt.

[Larry C]

Yup, you got that right. It suuuuucks for sure. Just glad we have a place to land
until (if and/or when) RRL is viable once again.

[PRR Modeler]

Larry I just posted my photos from Deer Creek on the build thread. I was lucky I had also saved them to my computer photo album. Hopefully everyone else can do the same.

[Larry C]

Curt nice to see your SW build here. I have all my pics from every On30 build I've done on my computer.
I just moved my Pratt's Hollow SL RR from layout tours to the O narrow line sub forum so that's where you'll find my layout progress.

[PRR Modeler]

Larry what main category is that in?

[Larry C]

Sorry Curt, I'm still getting my bearings here. It's in the "roundhouse" category.

[TomO/Tloc]

I was sorry to read earlier today about the shutdown. I have deleted my links to the forum. I enjoyed it there, I met some wonderful modelers virtually there and 3 in person. I will miss it

TomO

[westtexjohn]

Railroad-Line Forum was the very first forum I ever joined. And was the only one for me up until about a year ago. I remember when they shut down a couple of years or so ago for a re-vamp. It seemed I had lost my best railroading buddy. I learned a lot there and made some good friends. Here in west Texas, I have yet to find another model railroader so reaching out on the web is a life line to other modelers for me. I'll miss the crew lounge and all the great photos. Maybe RRLF will come back to life in the future.

Take care....John

[robert goslin]

Well that's it.  8:50 pm Friday 31st In Melbourne Australia.
RRL is no longer visible.

Anyhow, over here now and I'm posting plenty of my builds here already, and getting good replies & interest.
Good to have a home to post stuff too, as I still have a lot of layout and diorama builds to show off.
I wish posting photo's was a bit easier, but it is, what it is.

Retirement may be coming soon too, so even more time to do modelling....(I hope).

[TomO/Tloc]

I tried this morning at 6:00am CST hoping to write a goodbye but nothing. Oh well...

Like Rob wrote above from Australia I virtually met many good modelers. Read some great builds, had good conversations and personally met up with 3 and missed a 4th twice.

As to your impending retirement Rob, make sure you carve out time for yourself

TomO

[Vietnam Seabee]

With the demise of the RRLines forum I'm reminded that it was not that long ago that this forum "went dark".

Without the efforts of Jim and Craig the Modelers Forum wouldn't be here either.

Apparently it's either expensive, time consuming or both to run a forum like this.

Much of what I know about modeling has come from the aforementioned forums as well as the Sierra West forum ( which is dedicated solely to SW kit building).

We appear to be in a 'fragile' environment

Just my 30 cents (inflation)

terry

[KentuckySouthern]

More time for modeling.  Glad to have familiar 'faces' here.