The social media platform Instagram certainly offers a wealth of inspiration for model railway enthusiasts. The N scale (1:160) community is also large. Nevertheless, if you look further for inspiration, Instagram will undoubtedly make suggestions for nice cat videos or ladies (and gentlemen) who prefer a spinach shake to a bitterbal. That could be different, the creator of Train siding thought.
Train siding focuses exclusively on everything that has to do with trains. In the ‘real’ and model world. An app is available for iOS and Android. You can also log in via the browser. When we do this, we literally just see trains. That is satisfying, a movie from 24Trains.tv from the 1970s is very pleasant to watch.
It is also noticeable that the posts have a limited number of ‘likes’ (here too, hearts like Instagram), and the number of posts with the hashtag #nscale is also small. (125K at Instagram vs 11 at Train siding). It is clearly a smaller community. The creator Michael Schuijff therefore prefers to call it a ‘virtual clubhouse’. Where there is also room for a marketplace and games. Because the clubhouse breathes everything around trains, you will not see any ‘off topic’ posts here. No cats, no healthy shakes.
If you like trains and a small, intimate clubhouse appeals to you, this could be your platform. It never hurts to take a look to form your own opinion.
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