The "Surviving World Steam" project is documenting the last of the world's remaining steam locomotives, ships, boats, vehicles, and reciprocating pumps in the form of searchable databases and digital photographs. Roughly 31,000 steam engines in 150 countries and 2,000 photographs are included in the Surviving World Steam project. For more information please visit our new website at:
[www.survivingworldsteam.com]
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· New Features, New Photographs, New Website all part of the update for November 2003
· "Surviving World Steam Locomotives" has been updated for November 2003
· "Surviving World Steam Vehicles" has been updated for November 2003
· " Steam Lizards" update for November 2003
· "Surviving World Steamships" has been updated for November 2003
*** New Features, New Photographs, New Website all part of the update for November 2003 ***
The "Surviving World Steam" Project has achieved several notable milestones in the past six months. The total number of users surpassed the 200 mark during this time. For the first time since this project was begun, the total number of pictures added to the project exceeded the total number of new engines added in the past six months. And two new and long-awaited program features have been added to the "Surviving World Steam" CD-ROMs.
The project now has its own website at
[www.survivingworldsteam.com]. A great big THANK YOU to Paul Evans and Internal Fire, Museum of Power, Wales for hosting our new website; and to Patrick M. Cassell, Jean Francois Couëdou, Neil J. Edwards, Ray Gardiner, Paul Sharpe, and Franz VonRiedel (Zenith Tug) for providing the majority of the 873 photographs that have been added to the "Surviving World Steam" project library since May 2003.
*** "Surviving World Steam Locomotives" has been updated for November 2003 ***
The "Surviving World Steam Locomotives" for Windows CD-ROM was the first CD-ROM in the "Surviving World Steam" series, and has been updated for the month of November 2003. It now contains 19,018 steam locomotives; up 73 since the last update in May 2003 and 91% or more of the total worldwide.
The "Surviving World Steam Locomotive" program CD-ROM now includes 820 photographs in 62 countries. They include representative examples of builders and classes the world over. Examples of most surviving classes in North America, the UK, and much of Europe are also now included. Thirteen sound clips are also included.
The program itself includes two new features. One is a more extensive search form. You can now search each field individual; so for example, you can search for 3 ft gauge Baldwin 4-6-0s remaining in India. The other is a slide show feature; you enter the number of seconds delay, and the program automatically pages through the database. Hitting the same function key stops the slide show; when it reaches the end of the database, it starts back at the beginning again.
Those who have already purchased a copy can order an update. The update includes a copy of the program with the new features and 210 pictures, many of which do not ship with the program. Update CD-ROMs include an "Update Wizard", which transfers pictures and sound clip links to the update from your current copy before overwriting it. Thus, you needn't worry about losing your picture collection with each update.
To read more about "Surviving World Steam Locomotives", or to obtain a program or update CD-ROM, go to
[www.survivingworldsteam.com]
*** "Surviving World Steam Vehicles" has been updated for November 2003 ***
"Surviving World Steam Vehicles" is the second CD-ROM in the "Surviving World Steam" series. It was first released in November 2001; and has also been updated for November 2003.
It now includes 10,014 vehicles (up 121 since the last update in May 2003), 480 photographs, and one Quicktime Movie. No one knows how many steam vehicles remain; my best guess is that this represents 75% of the total worldwide.
It also includes the new release of the "Surviving World Steam" program with the extended search and slide show features. An update CD-ROM with the new program, 497 photographs, and the "Update Wizard" is also available for "Surviving World Steam Vehicles".
To read more about "Surviving World Steam Vehicles", or to obtain a copy, please go to
[www.survivingworldsteam.com] .
*** " Steam Lizards" update for November 2003 ***
The "Steam Lizards" project now has two main websites. First is our "Steam Lizards" group on Yahoo. It is at:
[groups.yahoo.com]
It is currently made up of 84 members, second only to "Surviving World Steam Locomotives" in total number of users. The online "survivor's
database" contains 729 pumps, nearly twice as many since May 2003. A good selection of links is also available in the Links section. New for
November 2003 is a picture on the "Steam Lizard" Group home page of a pair of G&J Weir vertical simplex steam pumps in the Bressingham Steam Museum; taken by "Sharpo" a member of the Steam Lizards group.
The second "steam lizard" website is the "Surviving World Steam Lizard" photo gallery at:
[www.survivingworldsteam.com]
It now includes 551 current and historical photographs by various photographers from around the world. The photo gallery is entirely searchable, using the search field on the home page; and has no pop ups or banner ads. It is available to everyone; no logon ID is required.
Special thanks to Ray Gardiner for his major contributions to this project to date, and to Rob Dickinson for the help he and Ray have provided by documenting virtually every single steam pump found in the sugar mills of Java in Indonesia.
*** "Surviving World Steamships" has been updated for November 2003 ***
"Surviving World Steamships" is the third CD-ROM in the "Surviving World Steam" series. It includes:
· Vessels propelled by a steam engine and boiler
· Vessels propelled by a steam turbine and boiler
· Vessels propelled by a steam turbine and nuclear reactor
It was first released in November 2002; and has been updated for November 2003.
It now includes 1956 vessels (up 200 since last May), 183 photographs, and one Quicktime Movie. It is thought that this total is 78% of the estimated 2500 steam vessels worldwide. (Steamboats as small as steam launches are included, and make up most of the missing vessels.) It also includes the new release of the "Surviving World Steam" program with the extended search and slide show features.
To read more about "Surviving World Steamships", or to obtain a copy, please go to
[www.survivingworldsteam.com]
Special thanks to Ted Miles of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Franz VonRiedel of Zenith Tug, and Jeff H. Schurr for their help in researching this project.
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In closing, I want to once again extend a warm "thank you" to everyone
who has supported "Surviving World Steam", either by sending photographs or data, or by purchasing a CD-ROM, or both. In every respect, 2003 continues to be our best year ever, and I am indebted to everyone who has made this possible. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
-James Hefner (Hebrews 10:20a)
JDH Consulting
james1@survivingworldsteam.com
