Originally Posted by Cholula
This thread will remain open and active so I suggest any folks who have compelling reasons for or against a Railroad Forum continue to post.
I voted against it based solely on the comments I've read here. I felt the folks who were against a general Railroad Forum were more convincing than those who were for it.
I haven't been on a train in decades so this is one of the rare travel issues where I don't have a strong opinion, pro or con.
There's no reason we can't run this up the TB flagpole again if enough members can show a compelling reason for the forum.
Let me try to summarize my arguements (3):
You have a worldwide forum for cruises, why not trains?
With the air travel situation fubar, rail travel is becoming more popular. Eurostar bookings are up 25% since last week. (which is what prompted me to look for a rail forum)
Why make people search all over the flyertalk boards for the info about trains. Having a trains forum would be less searches and less overhead on the flyertalk computers.
I get into this discussion somewhat later (after the vote started or something), but if I were proposing this for the future, I would probably propose one board and then see what the traffic was. If there were 10 new topics a day with 4 Eurostar / Europe and 4 Amtrak, 2 more sub board *MIGHT* make sense. On the other hand if there was 1 new topic a week, the one board would suffice.