> Sounds like a great idea! Who will help?
"Surviving World Steam Locomotives" is already on CD-ROM. No, it doesn't have all of the details on each engine that the Steam Locomotive Directory has. But, it also covers the entire world, not just North America.
I am working on wrapping up the November update as I write this. It looks like there are only 34 engines in the Directory that I have not matched to my list yet. But, I have identified an equal number of newly discovered engines, 150 Amusement Park engine and homebuilt engines, 49 sunk, seven buried, and several engines that have since been imported.
You can update the entries yourself, or you can purchase the updates I send out twice a year. You can sort by most of the fields, and search for a string of text.
I currently have 321 photographs or North American locomotives included on the CD-ROM, and will probably add more to this month's update. You can also add your own pictures through the Windows clipboard, and each update contains 200 pictures as well.
It will work on any Windows PC; although anything slower than about 200MHz would take too long to search for some people. (I carry it around on a 66MHz notebook computer that I don't mind leaving trackside for recording sound clips.)
I have worked with Wes Barris and Kelly Iverson, as well as boards such as this one to keep it as current as I can. I have had people carry portions of it to Russia and throughout Europe, and even showed it to shed bosses in China to verify it is as accurate as possible.
-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a
Surviving World Steam Locomotives
james1@pernet.net