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Welcome to Virtual Club of Model Railroaders! Virtual Club of Model Railroaders was created as non-profit organization which helps all railroad modelling fans to join their efforts in obtaining all sorts of new interesting information connected with new layouts, new railroad sites, brand new software and everything else that can be interesting for you. Our Club gives you an opportunity of using the complete collection of layouts sent here by the other visitors. All layouts may be downloaded for free by any visitor. You can expand our collection with your own layouts. Also, if you have a railroad related site, you are welcome to send us your link. If you've created a software product connected with railroad subject, you can also add it to our collection. So, the other visitors will learn about your product. For any item of our collections you may assign a mark evaluating its advantages (To see the rules click here). Ten best items are shown in our Top Ten rating. Our Gallery contains photos that you may find interesting. Besides that, some interesting links concerning railroad software manufacturers, model shops, train history, etc. You are welcome to send us your comments, information, links, ideas, pictures and anything else that you want to show to all those around the world who love railroad! Don't forget to read about Virtual Fan Club Policy
All opinions and suggestion please direct to info@railroad-mania.com
Our site contains the following main sections:
In Top Ten section one can find the results of voting made by our visitors. There are three Top Ten subsections - for layouts, modeller sites and software. The visitors vote for their favourite items and then the results are worked up and placed into the corresponding sections. Collection section also has three subsections - for layouts, modeller sites and software. Here you can find everything sent by our members by now. In this section you can vote for the items you liked. If you want to submit us your own layout, software product or your site, you can do it here. Just click the corresponding inscription. Gallery section contains photos sent by our visitors which we consider interesting and curious. Send us everithing that you feel should be interesting for the other railroaders. You can do it via e-mail. Look for the address on the home page. The best pictures will be placed in Gallery. In Links section there are some links that we found interesting for railroaders. The list is gradually updated. Results section contains combined top ten results for all three items: layouts, sites and software. Full results can be found in the corresponding Top Ten sections. Guest book gives you an opportunity to improve our site, sending us your opinions about it, suggestions how to change it for the better. We'll appreciate any information that would help us in our work with the site. You are welcome! Discussion section is the place where you can ask questions, read answers, introduce new topics to be discussed. What's New - recent events, happened on the site. We made this section specially for our frequent visitors - one can get all information about new submissions or changes by visiting this page only.
Any visitor may vote for any item of our collections. Against each item's number you can find Mark box. Choose a mark that you consider to be the most suitable for the item. Five ball grade is used:
Note, that whatever mark you put, it's a more or less good mark. That is, even when you put "1", it still increases the points. If you think that an item is extremely bad, choose "No", or just don't vote. You can vote for several different items a day, but only one vote per item is accepted from each person each day (24 hours). The results of voting are calculated automatically and may be found then in the Top Ten section. There are several fields in the table, responsible for the results: Points field shows all the marks in sum assigned for the item. The more points has an item, the higher its place in the table. Downloads field (for layouts only) shows how many visitors downloaded the layout. People Voted field - shows how many people voted for the item. The Average Ball - points, divided by the number of voters.
Everybody who submitted at least one layout, site of software product, becomes a member of Virtual Fan Club of Model Railroaders. This is for free! The only requirement: you should place the banner of the Club on your Web site. Don't forget to do it! All submission information should be filled in correctly and visitors are selfresponsible for providing correct information.
All layouts presented to Virtual Fan Club of Model Railroaders may be downloaded by any visitor for free, and may serve as the base for the future designs. However, the name of the original author should be mentioned in this case. Each layout presented to the Club is a subject of free of charge exchange between anybody who might need it. All photos presented to Train Gallery section are property of their owners. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Note! A person is allowed to give information about the software product only if he has the appropriate authorities given by the company (owner or developer of the product).
You'll be admited into our Club if you send us at least one own layout, a link to your site (railroad related), or description of a railroad software created by you. You may submit from TopTen, Collection sections or Site map. Membership in the Club will cost you nothing! The only requirement: you should place any of the following banners
Submitting a Layout. If you have a layout that you'd like to add to our collection, you can do it in Layout Submission section. Mind the following:
Submitting a Site. If you operate a railroad related website and would like more people who are interested in various aspects of railroads to visit your website, you can add it to our collection in Site Submission section. Mind the following: 1). Fill in Modeller Site submission form. Type your name, second name and profession in the corresponding fields. Indicate your e-mail address and URL address of your home page (if you have one). Then input the name of your city and zip/postal code. If you live in the USA, specify the state. Select your country in the Country box. Please be attentive while filling in the address fields. Then write site name and site URL address. In Classification box you should choose the item corresponding to orientation of your site. Next, complete the Description field. Pay particular attention to this one, because this is the information our visitors will come across. So, it must be brief (10 lines maximum), clear and informative - so that a person could easily see, if there's anything interesting for him. To submit your site click Submit Site button. Submitting a Software Product. Any organization or person who developed a new software product connected with railroads (games, design programs, encyclopedias, etc.) may send us its brief description. This information will be placed on our web. Mind the following: 1). Note! A person is permitted to send us information about the product only if he has the appropriate authorities given by the company (owner or developer of the product). 2). Fill in Software Submission form. Type in your name, second name and profession in the corresponding fields. Indicate your e-mail address and URL address of your home page (if you have one). Then input the name of your city and zip/postal code. If you live in the USA, specify the state. Select your country in the Country box. Please be attentive while filling in the address fields. Specify the name of the product in Product Name field. Prepare one or more screenshots, that give idea of how your program looks like. The file(s) must be stored in JPEG or GIF format and then packed by PkZip or WinZip compressor. Type the path and filename of your .zip file in the Screenshot field, or Click Browse button to find the file on your computer. In Home Page field type the web page, where your program can be found. Choose the corresponding category in Category field. In Platform box choose the platform, on which your program operates. In System Requirement field type the minimal requirements that your software needs to operate properly: CPU type, RAM size, Graphic Adapter, CD-ROM, etc. Indicate the price of your software. Description fields should contain information describing your program: its specific features, destination, advantages in comparison with similiar products. Try to make your description brief, clear and informative. To submit your product click Submit Software button.
Soon you'll have a possibility of winning a prize granted by our sponsors. A layout, site or software product that takes the first place in the Top Ten list by the end of the month, becomes the winner and gets the prize. It also gets the Winner's badge near it's name it the lists. Owners of the 2nd and the 3rd places are awarded with respective badges. All the rest items, which form top ten recieve Top Ten Participant's badge.
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