TrainLife

[sirenwerks]

Anyone having problems with the TrainLife site?  I am getting a lot of article pages that won't open.

[mcjaco]

I've been having that for months. 

I can go page to page, but my bookmarks to certain pages come up empty.

[jmlaboda]

They had a melt down several months back and are still working to recover what they lost.  The magazine page scans are currently not on the site but they hope to be able to recover... it will take a matter of time before things are back up but hopefully they can get everything back in order.  They are a great resource and I have taken advantage of the various magazine scans when I was doing research.  Hopefully they will be able to get everything up before too much longer.

[Denver Road Doug]

I know that sometime back they lost a good bit of data and had to restore manually...something like that.   Don't quote me on the details...or maybe I'm completely wrong.   But I seem to remember that...

[JMaurer1]

I actually contacted them several months ago and volunteered to help them fix their problems (computer geek by trade) and they assured me that the problem would be fixed by the end of the week. That was MONTHS ago. I also told them that I could supply scans for some of the magazines issues that they were missing. Was told thanks but no thanks. It's really too bad as this is an EXCELLENT resource for modellers. I hope that they can get it straightened out...

[Mark5]

I tried to join last year and got this message:



Trouble is, I never got any email.

I tried registering again with another email address this week - same result.

I'd like to help out in some way, but hey. 

Mark

[reinhardtjh]

I had the same result when I tried to join months ago.

[Rich_S]

You can add my name to the list as well. I tried to join several times and have never received a email?

[peteski]

Maybe they are simply harvesting email addresses and sell them to spammers? 

[jmlaboda]

Maybe they are simply harvesting email addresses and sell them to spammers?

Doubtful.  I saw a reduction in spam messages not an increase after joining.  It could be that the program intended to send out email messages was a part of what was corrupted.  That, or they have disabled it for the time being while they try to get everything back in order.

But I hate to say it... I am wondering if they are trying to get everything back in order.  It is understandable if a site has to be reloaded but it shouldn't be taking a year or more to get everything back up... I can't help but wonder if the site will ever be in the shape that it was before the problems arose and am beginning to think that they have just walked away from it all together.  As I said, "I hate to say it..." but that is beginning to look like what is going on.

[James Costello]

Just email them and ask them to verify your email address. I was in within 24hrs after asking.

[mcjaco]

Doubtful.  I saw a reduction in spam messages not an increase after joining.  It could be that the program intended to send out email messages was a part of what was corrupted.  That, or they have disabled it for the time being while they try to get everything back in order.

But I hate to say it... I am wondering if they are trying to get everything back in order.  It is understandable if a site has to be reloaded but it shouldn't be taking a year or more to get everything back up... I can't help but wonder if the site will ever be in the shape that it was before the problems arose and am beginning to think that they have just walked away from it all together.  As I said, "I hate to say it..." but that is beginning to look like what is going on.

If it's only one guy, or a couple, that have real jobs that come first, it could.

[jmlaboda]

If it's only one guy, or a couple, that have real jobs that come first, it could.

I don't buy that... I was maintaining a large website (the Passenger Car Photo Index) back when I was still working full-time and accomplished a great deal with my spare time.  And as each new update was being put together there was always measurable progress... which is not happening with TrainLife.  There does not appear to be any indicator that anything has been restored since the site first went down and that is sad.  The website was a great resource and there was measurable progress as they steadily worked at improving it... now its like nothing at all is being done and nothing has been done in quite a while.

I do hope I am wrong about TrainLife... I do want them to be able to get the site back up so that we all can enjoy the many magazine articles that once was there... I just am not optimistic any more.  I have watched a number of great websites disappear over the life of the Index and have seen how they end up as the sites went down and then disappeared.

[tehachapifan]

I did have about 5 articles in my favorites that all went away many months ago (the text and pictures anyway. The page framework[?] still loaded on each). A couple months ago, 2 out of the 5 articles started reloading again but not the others. I took that as a positive sign at the time but there did not seem to be any other changes since then that I've noticed.

[Mark5]

Just email them and ask them to verify your email address. I was in within 24hrs after asking.

James,

I could not find any email addresses on their site. Did you use this form?

http://www.trainlife.com/help/contact

Mark