You hardly need A.I. to make mistakes.

To be fair about this, there are railfans who will make mistakes like this. ALL.......... THE......... TIME. It really does take an immense amount of study, an autistic-level obsession, or a highly-focused sub-specialty focus on a particular railroad/loco builder/etc.--or all three combined--to get every last detail like this correct. As I commented to that very post thread, not every place or social-media poster is lucky enough to have "walking encyclopedias" sitting with them to fact-check, especially with a nine-to-five day job. Many of us have seen docents and park rangers fumble and make serious errors when guiding the "common folk" about, and I've even witnessed museum staff (volunteer) go off on unrelated tangents promoting the "National City Lines conspiracy" or how "GM blackmailed railroads to drop steam locomotives for diesels."

Even on the comments to that post, some commenter told us about how his father identified that it was a loco he ran: "It's a three-stacker!" This, when the loco in question (a Baldwin VO1000) plainly had four stacks visible, one of about five different exhaust manifold options available on that model.......

We can't all be the late J. David Ingles.

I'll begin this by stating that I am not a social media expert and I don't understand social media algorithms.

That said, I was very surprised by how the museum handled their LinkedIn accounts during the name change. They appear to have abandoned their old LinkedIn account, B&O Railroad Museum - The Birthplace of American Railroading, which has 1,467 followers. I thought they would have just renamed it per the instructions on LinkedIn's If you want to change your LinkedIn Page or Showcase Page name page.

Instead, the museum created a completely new account, the National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation - The National Museum of Railroad History & Innovation (Formerly the B&O Railroad Museum).

The new account has 73 followers.

What you've just described is ridiculously common, unfortunately, among people who don't understand social media and the Internet.

I watched another railroad group that had a Facebook account, sharing their activities, events, historical nuggets, vintage photos and the like rack up something like 7,000 "followers."

Then a new director decided to take over, by doing exactly what you described--shut down the old account without warning and set up a new page, for the sake of "new." And totally blundered any "transition" process. And did away with the history and photo posts that drove engagement.

A year later? 360 "followers."

And there were a few other blunders as well that drove off quite a few long-standing, hardcore members and volunteers. Sound familiar?

Media update by an online "newspaper" competitor to the Baltimore Sun:

https://www.thebanner.com/community/loc ... 2O2HAA4FY/



More at the link (probable paywall warning).

I think broadening their mission is not a bad thing at all. It makes sense to me. However, that logo is a nope from me.