Posted by
Jim Courtney on
Mar 02, 2015; 11:48pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-Sn3-Blog-Articles-vs-C-Sn3-Discussion-Forum-Articles-tp1553p1559.html
There is a 3rd option. Chris, post your topics, photos and interpretations as you have been doing on the forum. Allow subsequent discussion, posting of photographs, etc. as you have been doing. Then at some arbitrary date, declare post discussion finished.
Thereafter, the primary author could edit the material: Place photographs (primary and submitted in discussion) in chronologic order with captions, links etc. Add additional information submitted in discussion
("Rick Steel added. . ." or
"Derrel Poole pointed out . . .". Edit out any personal disagreements with some sort of resolution if possible, delete emoticons and Godzilla photos.
Then with Darel's help, repost an archival version for future reference by all, linked under a new heading on the Home Page. You could archive your overall topic in segments:
"The Mills of Idaho Springs, The East End". "The Mills of Idaho Springs, Downtown", etc.
As I pointed out earlier, the Forks Creek Post and Thread was fabulous, but is receding into the past. A new viewer might not know how to look for it or even of its existence.
Just thoughts. Roper's Dog House is more than just another narrow gauge blog and forum. It is already the largest online collections of information and photographs on the C&S and Predecessors in existence. The folks contributing to this discussion collectively know more about this topic than anyone on the planet, and we're all growing older (at least I am!). This collective knowledge needs to be permanently recorded.
When the Clear Creek Line has been exhaustively discussed and all rare photos discovered, perhaps "Roper Publishing" could be formed to allow hard copy publication of the material (a collective effort, perhaps?). I mean, really, this stuff makes "Bogies and the Loop" look like comic books.
Just my 2 cents worth.
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA