Hi,

Having given my publisher the boot, I have now listed "Civil Engineering for Outdoor Railroads Volume 2 - Bridges" for sale at my web store (http://www.dougsrrshop.com). I have posted an announcement at several live steam and park trains Yahoo forums.

I know CEv2 has been used at a couple of museums and tourist railroads and even one standard gauge short line. Even though the target audience is mainly live steam and park trains, the ideas and the tables (from 3.75" gauge to 42" gauge) and programs (any gauge) will help most anyone out and I am very willing to offer help to anyone if I can.

Many of the topics for Civil Engineering Volume 3 (like Civil Engineering Volume 1)are based on emails and forum posts about topics others needed information about and I was able to help out. Once I finish revising them into a book format text and I have enough pages (I target a book for about 200 pages for the Civil Engineering series), I then prepare it for publication.

I am now working on a history book on the Roswell Railroad (aka Roswell Branch Railroad) here in Georgia and Volume 3 of the Civil Engineering series.

As some know, I offer many outdated books that I have scanned to CD (the earliest is from 1848). I have done this to preserve the information (several books I have were crumbling in my fingers as I used them). I have priced the CDs fairly low to keep the incentive to sharing the scans with others without paying for them low. Scanning every page and item in the books is quite time consuming. I am keeping the price fairly low to make the information available to a wider audience (those that can not afford $50-300 per book). I am reducing my eBay presence since they are now charging a Final Value Fee of 8.75% for the price range of my items.

I am working on sorting all my scanned books by railroad to offer railroad data by CD. This is taking a long time to sort the scans. However, I am interested in anyone's opinion on how to offer this information by railroad. I list my CDs below and my questions about how to offer the "by railroad" CDs.

If someone from RYPN will contact me back-channel, I'll give you a CEv2 for review on RYPN.

Thanks.

Doug vV


Apple - Appleton's Railroad & Steamboat Travel Guide on CD
ARG - American Railway Guide on CD
OG - Official Guide of the Railways on CD
ORL - Official Railway List on CD
RM OG - Rand McNalley Railway Guide on CD

ORER - Official Railway Equipment Registers on CD
ORPTE - Official Register of Passenger Train Equipment on CD

Poors - Poor's Financial Manuals on railroads on CD
Moodys - Moody's Financial Manuals on railroads on CD

ABC - British railroad guides on CD
Amtrak manuals on CD

CDs for specific railroads - I currently have two or three RR based CDs available. I am currently working on RR based CDs with everything I have scanned including (but not limited to) OG, ORER, ORPTE, Poors, Moodys, ORL, Appletons, and American Railway Guide books. I currently have all my scanned books sorted by RR name from 1848 up to 1890. I will probably break the CDs at 1899 and then offer a follow up for the 1900-1999 time frame. If you have opinions on how to break up (or not to break it up at all) the CD, please drop me a line.

Conrail on CD
Norfolk Southern on CD
Pennsylvania Railroad manuals on CD
Rand McNally Shipper's Guides on CD