Originally Posted by stc
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.
I think your point about increased rail travel as a result of the air travel mess is a strong one. And if rail bookings continue to rise, this may be yet another argument in favor of a Rail Forum.
This is just my opinion but I think the folks who were in favor of a Rail Forum needed to better layout a workable format that could encompass all forms of rail travel, on an international basis, in a single forum.
In fact,
railroadtycoon laid out some serious arguments against such a forum in a couple of his earlier posts.
We know some folks were going to be unhappy about this decision but channel that sentiment into putting together a workable plan.
Thanks.