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🚂 Welcome to ModelTrainMedia!
Hi everyone, I’m Oscar — the founder of this platform. First of all, thank you for joining!
I started ModelTrainMedia because I wanted to create a modern, friendly space where model railway enthusiasts from all over the world can connect, share their layouts, ask questions, and get inspired.
👉 Feel free to introduce yourself in the comments or share a photo of your trains or layout.
👉 Don’t hesitate to ask questions — our community is here to help.
👉 Explore the groups and topics that match your interests.
👉 And if you know other train hobbyists, invite them to join us too — the more the merrier! 🚆Together we can build an inspiring, creative, and welcoming place for all model railway fans.
I’m really excited to see your ideas, stories, and projects here!— Oscar
Founder of ModelTrainMedia
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Such a great idea!
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I’m disappointed that S scale is not an option in the profile list of scales that members model in. As an S scale modeler, I would rather not have to use “Other Scale” In my profile. 😔
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@Scaler164 I will add S scale tomorrow it was my bad that I forgot about it. So we will fix it as soon as possible I will try to have it added tomorrow!
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any chance to add a “news” category?
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I’ve just added it to the feed topics so now it is possible to use it!
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Thanks for the welcome
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Thanks for setting this up. I have just registered and I will get my profile set up over the next few days
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Oscar, I’m youre biggest fan! haha this is a great idea!
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Hi there! Nice to be here. ATM I am without a layout due to country moving. Hope to be back on track soon. Mainly Nscale
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Oscar, thanks so much for making a place like this for all model railroaders! I will definitely be making great use of your platform!
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@Oscar is there a way to turn off email notifications or just certain ones? I don’t want to have constant emails.
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@OKC_Train_Show hi I get that it should be possible in your account settings! Let me know if you can find it. I will also change the e-mail settings because I get that it is annoying.
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@Oscar Thank you I found it. However, it wasn’t easy to find. Click profile then scroll all the way down on the left menu then go into account.
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A very lovely and interesting Idea, I look forward to see how this develops!
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This is such a good idea, thank you for putting the work in to create a dedicated community outside of the big social platforms.
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Cracking idea, Oscar. Thanks for creating this site for us all. Cheers, Andy.
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Thank you for coming up with this idea. I see this isn’t open source so, how are you going to fund this and how are you making this service pay for itself? Is it Ad revenue? Selling data to ‘industry’? We’re in a digital age and data is the new crude oil- apologies if this seems sceptical!
PS share to other socials would make my life so much more simpler 🙏
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@Furness_Lines Hey Furness welcome to the community! In the future we will try to fund the platform for hobbyist with ad revenue from advertisers that are relevant. So there will be only train related advertisements.
And one important thing to mention, I can personally guarantee that I will never sell any data to companies. That is also the reason why I dont collect any data. So people only have to leave their email adress and a nickname.
So nobody has to worry about that. That is also an extra benefit of my platform against platforms like Facebook and instagram.
Kind regards, Oscar Founder Model Train Media
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@Oscar thank you for your honesty and transparency, it is appreciated and refreshing.
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@Modeltrainmedia Sounds promising. A request from those of us who’s eyeballs are captured by movement. Please only accept ads that have static images. I normally use an ad blocker at all times for two reasons. The first is to protect from drive-by malware. The second, and the reason I started doing so many years ago, is that motion strongly captures my focus. Things on the screen that move or blink make it almost impossible for me to focus on what I’m trying to read. It’s almost as if some of the sites don’t care if you can enjoy their content, as long as you see the ads. Thank you for considering this issue.
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Is posting your club’s show allowed? Or would it be considered spam? Could a club set up a profile to share photos and activities, etc.?
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@Andrew Yes ofcourse I want a platform where people can connect with eachother and where people can invite eachother!
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@Modeltrainmedia Sounds good! Great job, too! I am loving this space!!!
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How do you create a forum in this site, I have some few forum ideas I want to add.
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@NScaleProductions Hey if you want to add forum categories you can ask me to add them and then you can be the first to start discussions. It is also possible to create a social group by yourself for a certain topic and then to add a forum that is connected to your social group with all the topics you want.
It is like this way because I want to protect the community against unwanted content and in this way people can have it while keeping a safe community!
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@Modeltrainmedia Okay then, thanks
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Hoping this new platform works out!
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Hey Oscar,
It would be nice to have an option to bookmark a post so it can easily be found again. I would imagine it being available under the “3 dot ellipsis” that currently only holds “Report post” – but then again “bookmark post” and “report post” should probably not be located right next to each other… -
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Thanks for starting this up! I’ve been in the hobby for 20+ years and I’m finally starting to build a layout. Always learning and sharing to help further the hobby with like minded people.
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Its great to hear that you like the idea, the platform is in progress so together we can make this the best train platform online!
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Not just”O” scale-On30!
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@on30 I’ve now added scale-On30 as a topic to post in!
Thanks for your feedback together we can build a great community 🙂
It is also possible to be one of the first to create a dedicated group for scale-On30 this way there is a dedicated place, that would be awesome 😉
Kind regards,
Oscar Founder Model Train Media
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Hello all just joined
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@Bigboy1960 Welcome!
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Greetings. Thank you for responding to my inquiry on FB. I look forward to helping represent and promoting the L-gauge model train community here. 🙂
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@PhoenixTrainWorks Welcome!
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Just joined yesterday. I love the idea of a dedicated social media platform for model railroading!
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Oscar: edit your why join pitch. There are no apostrophes in plural words: “Share photo’s and video’s easily” should be “Share photos and videos easily”
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I recently joined and like this site. The only issue I have with it is it’s kind of slow. Any plans on to offer paid memberships or sponsorship to help with the infrastructure bills?
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@GlenForksRR Hi thanks for signing up and good to hear that you like the idea!
I am working very hard to generate some income so I can invest more in the infrastructure, there will be news soon regarding this. And I will be upgrading a lot of stuff in the upcoming weeks already so that is great for the performance of the site.
Also some problems today where caused by the problems regarding AWS so we hope these are fully fixed now but I am monitoring this closely. So the performance is top priority for us!
Kind regards,
Oscar
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