I also strongly object to a generalized rail forum. For example, in my country, named "Canada" we have one major railline named "VIA Rail" and it's used by millions of people across our pretty big country. Did you know that Canada is really big? Very big. Bigger than the United States. Of course, the top half doesn't really much of anything except for moss, rocks, seals, tundra, and water but that's not the point. Our current forum, namely "Air Canada Aeroplan" is littered here and there with VIA threads. I find these threads useful but a real pain in the butt to search for each time I have a question (rather than starting ANOTHER thread on VIA). In addition, there are very knowledgeable and experience VIA rail travellers that have alot of SPECIFIC and DETAILED information and help to offer others. Thus VIA deserves its own forum.