WOW, looks like the real thing!

Awesome!  Thanks for your efforts.

Thank you all very much for your efforts!

To All above who got ThorTrains site back:

Thanks for the effort and work you all did to get ThorTrains back.  I have enjoyed his site for many years and now can continue visiting.  Thor did much work to share is love for model trains and it would have been a shame to loose it on his death.

Charlie

Great job to everyone who had a hand in this.

WOW! Thanks, guys, Dennis and anyone else responsible. I thought this resource was lost. I have always recommended it to new people, besides enjoying it myself. Well done.   

Now if we can just rescue Dale Manquen's TrainFacts website before it goes dark, that would be another plus.  I don't know who's maintaining it now, but it can only be a matter of time.

Is this it?

http://www.trainfacts.com/

Looks like it's hosted @ GoDaddy  45.40.165.10

Nameservers...

  7    59 ms    59 ms    60 ms  148.72.34.34

  8    83 ms    71 ms    71 ms  148.72.32.67

Hostnamep3nw8shg505.shr.prod.phx3.secureserver.net  <--GoDaddy Server

Yep, I have no idea when it will die, but Dale has been gone for some time, and I can't imagine anyone else is actively keeping it up.

Corey (CaptJ) found Thor's files through his Facebook group... All Gauge.  Does anyone know if Dale had a Facebook presence... i.e., followers, page, group?   I have never been on Facebook... so, I'm not the guy for that.

Also, I just emailed Dale... it hasn't bounced ...yet.  We will see if someone is checking it.

Update:  I got it... and, it's working locally on my machine.

John, I'll set up my ftp server in the next few days and you can grab it, so there is a backup.

Great job Dennis, Rich and all others involved. I have gone often to that website and my sons bunk bed layout as well as our train show layouts are based on plans from Thortrains. Thanks for saving this legacy and resource for all!

This is awesome to see Thor’s site back online.  Thanks!

I own my own datacenter and would be happy to mirror the content of thortrains free of charge indefinitely.

@cjwallgren posted:

I own my own datacenter and would be happy to mirror the content of thortrains free of charge indefinitely.

CJ... that is probably a really good idea!  Who knows when I will get hit by a truck?  I'm still dealing with this darned Ice Storm (New Orleans Edition)... shoot me an email in a few days to remind me and we will discuss.

Thank You

dennis

Saved as a Favorite - Thanks for sharing.

@Dennis-LaRock posted:

CJ... that is probably a really good idea!  Who knows when I will get hit by a truck?  I'm still dealing with this darned Ice Storm (New Orleans Edition)... shoot me an email in a few days to remind me and we will discuss.

You think you have cold weather?  We have piles of snow all around over eight feet high, half our visitor's parking is huge snow banks, and my driveway if also flanked with huge piles of snow.  The white crap just keeps coming this year!   Last winter we didn't have any measurable snow, where's Al Gore when you really need some Global Warming!

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Last winter we didn't have any measurable snow, where's Al Gore when you really need some Global Warming!

Didn't the Polar Ice Caps go bye-bye in 2013... Oh!  WHAT!  They are still there!

I know the snow you are talking about... grew up in Vermont ...so not an issue at all for me.  But, the folks down here have a time of it... I've been running around to the neighbors capping off their busted pipes.  I had two go where the pipes are outdoors... they didn't burst ...but, like an idiot I used sharkbites and they separated.  I'll be sweating in the new fittings tomorrow or Sunday.

Thank you to all that made this happen. This is a great site and I'm glad it is back. I have referenced it a lot over the years

Dennis,

I am quite sure his wife, Audrey, will be thrilled that you kept his legacy going. Having personally known Tom over the years, he really knew his stuff, hated command cintrol and loved conventional operated trains. He would run his Williams GG1 on the club layout at a million MPH! A real character.

For some reason, he did not drive so he took the bus every Tuesday night to the club and I offered every Tuesday night to drive him home. We had some nice chats on the way home! Like I said, Thor was a really great person to know!!