Proposal: Railways and Railroads
The previous version of this site had 100 followers, but failed through a lack of +10 questions - what can we do to help this one succeed? Were the old questions lacking? Or did we simply not have enough people voting?
Any thoughts?
After reading the example questions, from the prior attempt [Edit: presuming those are the ones shown now], I have a number of ideas:
1) For each example question, preface the question with an explanation why would the question be asked?
If an explanation prefaced the question it would help demonstrate question context and relevance. Some questions seemed too obscure to be of community interest or be likely to have any/many members capable of answering it; a couple were too easy.
2) One should be mindful that "Railroad" and "Railway", as well as everything concerning the two terms (ie. guage, equipment, operation, and etc.), will vary by country and time period. This could cause some confusion/misunderstandings.
3) What's true about #2 above holds for modelling, to some extent, unless one is mindful that, for simple example, "HO" could mean "HOn3-1/2", "H0m", "HOn3", "HOe", and etc. depending on country.
I’ve actually seen two iterations of this proposal be restarted. We came closer this January than last year.
I think, our chances are getting better every time simply because of the SE userbase increasing and maybe this one’s the one. Let’s go for it!
Ten months later and we are merely missing two upvotes to get 40 questions of score ten. We basically did it!
A similar proposal, LEGO, has been in beta for over 5 years.
It's successful question set can be found:
