All things related to Trains and Rail-fanning!. The Home for all things "Iron Horse". Steam, Diesel, Electric, Pneumatic, Hydraulic. It doesn't matter, let them be seen! Post your Pics, Videos, Stories, experiences, etc. Keep it interesting, topical, NON trolling, and everything will be great. Alaska Railroad to Zambian Railroads, we want to see them all. Founded 2008 · 655.9K members
657.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached
25.7K upvotes, which works out to
39 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Video 33%Image 32%Gallery 25%Text 5%Question 3%Link 2%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
📸 OC - Picture(s) 91📹 OC - Video 73❓ Question 31🏛️ Historical 27Train Video 20 🗫 Discussion 19📰 News 17🤣 Meme / Humour 11❓ What is this Train? 11📸 OC - Picture(s) - May be used in side-bar gallery 9
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/trains?
r/trains ("All things related to Trains and Rail-fanning!") describes itself this way: The Home for all things "Iron Horse". Steam, Diesel, Electric, Pneumatic, Hydraulic. It doesn't matter, let them be seen! Post your Pics, Videos, Stories, experiences, etc. Keep it interesting, topical, NON trolling, and everything will be great. Alaska Railroad to Zambian Railroads, we want to see them all. It was founded in 2008 and has 655.9K members.
How many members does r/trains have?
r/trains has about 657.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 418 of its posts; the biggest reached 25.7K upvotes, which is 39 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/trains?
"Crossing a lagoon in midnight during a thunder storm" reached 25.7K upvotes and 273 comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/trains.
What subreddits are similar to r/trains?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/madisonwi, r/NoFilterNews.
What kind of posts do best on r/trains?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are video posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/trains?
Across 418 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (4.5K avg upvotes), Sunday at 18:00 UTC (4.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/trains?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/trains has 4.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 308 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/trains, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.