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Traction Talk is the Messageboard Dedicated to Road Steam Engines If you have an interest in Traction Engines, Minature Steam, Steam Engine Rallies or anything road steam related then Traction Talk is the place for you! You need to register with us before you can see messages or post, this is easy to do and completely free of charge - you can be up and running in minutes by following the link below: Register for Traction Talk What We Talk About Traction Talk is a thriving and growing community we have around 1,000 active members and a library of over 50,000 posts featuring many hundreds of pictures. Our members come from the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, North America, South America, Germany, Holland and a few more besides! We have a couple of get-together's each year with the main one being held at the Great Dorset Steam Fair in August/September. We feature pictures and discussion on all types of engines including, General Purpose Engines, Showmans Engines, Steam Rollers, Steam Lorries and historic pictures of engines during their working life. Miniature Steam If you are interested in building miniature traction engines we have a thriving model forum, where you can discuss building, buying and running minature engines: Steam Rallies We have a regularly updated list of road steam events taking place across the world and a calendar of events. Also throughout the summer season we have rally reports supplied by members - Traction Talk is the first place to learn about what's going on in the rally scene. Not Just Steam In addition we have several other forums dedicated to non-steam topics: Items For Sale and Wanted Jokes and Off Topic Discussions How Traction Talk is Paid For Traction Talk is funded by it's membership. For those who would like to make a voluntary donation to Traction Talk funds we provide an image hosting service and several supporter only forums. Once you are registered you can find out more about donating and the benefits. Join Us Today If any of the above sounds like it would interest you please join us, we welcome new members and in time hope you can become a valued contributer to the Traction Talk community. Register For Traction Talk Should you have any issues with signing up or further questions please email me and I will do my best to help out: David Collidge, Traction Talk Administrator - david@tractiontalkforum.com |
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Steam Engine Matters | ||||
For general discussions on all things Traction Engine related.
Sub-Forums: Caption Competitions
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15,762 | 232,420 | ||
Forum dedicated to technical discussions.
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2,221 | 24,475 | ||
Information and photographs about engines that members own, have owned or crew on.
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362 | 5,268 | ||
Reports on Traction Talk members projects.
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268 | 10,849 | ||
For recording change of owners
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2 | 9 | ||
Forum for our members to introduce themselves and/or post a picture.
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584 | 3,239 | ||
Related to steam on the road.
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17 | 63 | ||
Collection of members working engine pictures.
Sub-Forums: Historic Preservation Photographs
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2,661 | 19,341 | ||
Discussions relating to the National Traction Engine Trust.
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132 | 1,391 | ||
Links to steam engine and related web sites
Sub-Forums: YouTube Videos
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317 | 1,155 | ||
Need something moving? Maybe a TT member will be able to help.
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158 | 347 | ||
Miniature Steam | ||||
Buying, building, and operating miniature steam engines
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4,221 | 59,950 | ||
Pictures of Traction Talk members engines
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196 | 3,093 | ||
Information and error reporting on the manufacturing drawings for model engines
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89 | 628 | ||
Steam Rallies | ||||
Let others know about events in your area.
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2,513 | 13,119 | ||
Reports and pictures from recent Steam events
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2,610 | 15,106 | ||
Area for members to post details of any roading that they are planning to undertake with their engine.
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713 | 3,752 | ||
Advertisements | ||||
Steam items and equipment For Sale.
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6,224 | 10,720 | ||
Steam items and equipment Wanted.
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3,736 | 12,233 | ||
Steam related items on eBay .
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2,337 | 5,290 | ||
Recommendations for, and requests for information about, suppliers.
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403 | 1,778 | ||
Resources | ||||
Area for members to post details of patterns they have and are willing to loan.
Sub-Forums: Wanted
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136 | 361 | ||
Help & Feedback | ||||
FAQ on how to do things with this message board.
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87 | 485 | ||
Suggestions, and ideas, on the setup of this board
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29 | 232 | ||
A forum for contributors to leave a message with the contribution.
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2 | 14 | ||
Supporters - Restricted Access For Donating Members Only | ||||
Private | 16 | 171 | ||
Reference documents and pictures.
Sub-Forums: Library - Discussions
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Private | 269 | 539 | |
Section for members to post their Drawings for download
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Private | 24 | 72 | |
General Discussion Topics
Subjects that are not related to TT's standard subject matter.
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Forum to discuss everything apart from Traction Engines.
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Private | 2,169 | 20,607 | |
What are you interested in apart from steam?
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Private | 196 | 1,894 | |
Restricted Access off topic area.
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Private | 1,663 | 2,857 | |
What's Going On? | |
Traction-Talk Statistics | |
Threads: 50,379,
Posts: 452,989,
Members: 11,911,
Active Members: 772
Welcome to our newest member, Dave McDonald
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