7/30/99 - published page to the web and "asked" for updates/corrections (probably will regret that for a loooong time!) - Rader Railcar page added to "honorary" section
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7/31/99
"Silver" car name index added - UP notes added re: 2 unidentifed derelict cars - many pictures added - many minor corrections
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8/06/99
SP "history" article added - Westours page added - Princess Tours history added - other non-RR indexes added - Tourist & dinner trains added - non-"Silver" car names index added - many more minor corrections
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8/13/99 - GCRY car identified - Mexican cars page added - MRL/I&MRL pages added - "minor holes" section added" - minor corrections
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8/20/99 - Conway Scenic & Tennessee Central pages added - Many pictures added
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8/27/99 - BNSF & NS pages added - many historical society links added
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9/03/99 - Florida Fun Train page added
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9/10/99 - Rader Railcar page extensively rewritten - Milwaukee Skytops page extensively rewritten - ATSF hi-level lounges and Superliner lounges added to "honorary" domes - many new pics added
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9/17/99 - Rock Island page added - "Movements" page added
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9/24/99 - "Timeline" page added.
due to length of main page, most link lists pulled off to separate pages (this beast has now grown to 106 pages!).
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10/01/99 - Opening and closing pictures on main page added. Union Pacific COMPLETED (whew!)
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10/08/99 - added L&N and PRR, and notes to IC, CofG, ACL and SAL about leased NP cars for "Southwind" and "City of Miami"
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10/15/99 - added new pages - Golden Arrow, Scenic Rail Dining, Transcisco, Kalamazoo Lake Shore & Chicago
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10/22/99 - added Wyoming & Colorado
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11/05/99 - added White River Scenic, "generic names" page, MARC, CSX, Inland Pacific Rail, Mike Abernethy
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11/12/99 - added "obituaries" page to "timelines"
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11/19/99 - Turbotrain "domes" page added to "Honorary"
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11/20/99-12/31/99 - minor corrections and picture additions throughout.
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01/07/00 - added "CZ" pictures - added "CZ" roster page
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01/21/00 - added Empire Builder Private Cars page - updated photo credits throughout
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01/28/00 - added photo credit link page
100th car photo linked in - VIA 8515 by Shane Stewart. Next target 118, or 50% of the cars!
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02/04/00 - good week - found 9 new cars! added "reporting marks" to bottom of page 1 to see if more search engines find site
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02/21/2000! - 118th car photo identified (50% of all cars built) ATSF 551 on "Golden Arrow Excursions" by Bob Rathke. Added "hit" counter.
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03/22/00 - car picture count now at 125, hit counter exceeded 500 on 3/21 - received "Web Gem" award - began conversion to move site to "Trainweb"
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04/14/00 - picture count = 132 cars. Photos over 250. Moved all photos "onsite" to Trainweb and changed links - changed every page link to "relative", began moving 150+ pages to Trainweb. (This WILL work, but it is a hell of a lot more work than anticipated!).
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04/19/00 - like HELL it will work! All the moving was a wasted effort. Not compatable with Netscape Navigator (among others). Entire site will need to be "subdirectorys" on trainweb, and every link in the site changed to call "/".
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05/05/00 - finally got it all changed and moved to trainweb in late April. Also added a "TEE" european domes page in the "honorary" section.
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05/08/00 - got picture of GN 1330. That is picture of the 137th car - 99 "domes on the wall" to go.
05/16/00 - pic MILW 55 - 98 to go
05/16/00 - pic MILW 56 - 97 to go
05/16/00 - added Swedish DMU "honorary" page 05/18/00 - added Swiss "Panoramic" page
05/20/00 - pic CP 15410 - 96 to go
05/22/00 - pic UP 7006 - 95 to go
05/22/00 - pic MP 890 - 94 to go
06/17/00 - BCR glasstops page added
06/17/00 - pic CBQ 254 - 93 to go
06/17/00 - pic CBQ 4735 - 92 to go
06/22/00 - pic CP 504 - 91 to go
06/22/00 - pic CP 509 - 90 to go
06/22/00 - pic CP 512 - 89 to go
06/24/00 - pic SP 3603 - 88 to go
06/30/00 - hit counter exceeded 3000
07/01/00 - pic CP 15417 - 87 to go
07/01/00 - pic CBQ 4727 - 86 to go
07/01/00 - pic SP 3604 - 85 to go
07/03/00 - pic CP 15415 - 84 to go
07/03/00 - pic SPS 1332 - 83 to go
07/03/00 - pic CP 15408 - 82 to go
07/06/00 - pic ATSF 511 - 81 to go
07/06/00 - pic ATSF 553 - 80 to go
07/08/00 - pic SP 3601 - 79 to go
07/10/00 - pic UP 9011 - 78 to go
07/10/00 - added Gary Morris & Brian Ehni photo pages
07/17/00 - pic UP 7007 - 77 to go
07/18/00 - pic ATSF 510 - 76 to go
07/18/00 - pic ATSF 554 - 75 to go
07/18/00 - pic NP 555 - 74 to go
07/18/00 - pic SP&S 559 - 73 to go
07/30/00 - pic NP550 - 72 to go - 1 year anniversary!!! 07/31/00 - finished rewrite - pages changed to car/pic - car/pic vs all cars then all pics
08/06/00 - pic GN 1326 - 71 to go
08/09/00 - pic UP 8003 - 70 to go
08/09/00 - pic UP 8009 - 69 to go
08/09/00 - pic ATSF 509 - 68 to go
08/17/00 - pic CP 15416 - 67 to go
08/17/00 - pic CP 501 - 66 to go
08/17/00 - pic CP 510 - 65 to go
08/17/00 - pic CP 15413 - 64 to go
08/24/00 - pic UP 8007 - 63 to go
08/25/00 - pic ATSF 555 was ATSF 507 - 64 to go 08/27/00 - pic MP 891 - 63 to go
08/27/00 - pic MP 894 - 62 to go
08/27/00 - pic TP 200 - 61 to go
09/12/00 - pic CP 15412 - 60 to go
09/12/00 - pic CBQ 4716 - 59 to go
09/12/00 - pic CBQ 4717 - 58 to go
09/12/00 - pic GN 1394 - 57 to go
09/18/00 - pic CP 15407 - 56 to go
09/20/00 - pic CP 500 - 55 to go
09/25/00 - pic CP 15409 - 54 to go
10/07/00 - CBQ 252 photo is WP 813 - 252(2) - no photo of 252(1) - 55 to go!
10/13/00 - NP 549 - 54 to go
10/24/00 - GN 1321 - 53 to go
10/24/00 - GN 1329 - 52 to go
10/24/00 - GN 1393 - 51 to go
10/24/00 - CBQ 1334 - 50 to go
10/25/00 - NP 310 - 49 to go
10/25/00 - CP 15401 - 48 to go
10/25/00 - CBQ 4725 - 47 to go
10/25/00 - NP 314 - 46 to go
10/25/00 - NP 308 - 45 to go
10/25/00 - CP 513 - 44 to go
11/02/00 - UP 8002 - 43 to go
11/02/00 - CP 508 - 42 to go
11/02/00 - UP 9014 - 41 to go
11/02/00 - UP 8006 - 40 to go
11/02/00 - MP 895 - 39 to go
11/02/00 - UP 8000 - 38 to go
11/04/00 - NP 312 - 37 to go
11/04/00 - CBQ 361 - 36 to go - 200 DONE!!!
11/06/00 - hit counter exceeded 4000
11/07/00 - ATSF 550 - 35 to go
11/07/00 - ATSF 555 - 34 to go
11/07/00 - CP 506 - 33 to go
11/07/00 - UP 9012 - 32 to go
11/07/00 - added location by state index
11/13/00 - CBQ 305 - 31 to go
11/14/00 - CP 514 - 30 to go
11/17/00 - CBQ 4730 - 29 to go
11/25/00 - CP 505 - 28 to go
11/28/00 - CBQ 4719 - 27 to go
12/06/00 - CBQ 253 - 26 to go
12/14/00 - CBQ 4723 - 25 to go
01/10/01 - CBQ 4726 - 24 to go
01/20/01 - UP 9000 - 23 to go
02/20/01 - hit counter exceeded 5000
02/23/01 - CBQ 250 - 22 to go
02/26/01 - CP 502 - 21 to go
02/26/01 - CP 511 - 20 to go
02/27/01 - C&O 1876 - 19 to go
03/02/01 - CBQ 252 - 18 to go
03/02/01 - CBQ 4724 - 17 to go
03/02/01 - CBQ 4728 - 16 to go
03/03/01 - UP 9008 - 15 to go
03/05/01 - UP 8005 - 14 to go
03/18/01 - GN 1327 - 13 to go
04/01/01 - GN 1324 - 12 to go
06/05/01 - UP 9013 - 11 to go
06/08/01 - CP 516 - 10 to go
06/24/01 - revamped all page names
06/25/01 - UP 7004 - 9 to go
06/25/01 - UP 7005 - 8 to go
07/06/01 - page counter hit 6000!
07/10/01 - revamped Amtrak, VIA, California Zephyr, and Silver name pages, adding photo links within text.
07/15/01 - revamped Silver names page with many more names, and added a "by number" segment to the page
07/31/01 - 2 years on the net - added recent photos page
10/02/01 - GN 1328 - 7 to go
10/02/01 - NP 311 - 6 to go
10/02/01 - UP 8001 - 5 to go
10/26/01 - hit counter exceeded 7000
11/14/01 - WP 814 - 4 to go
12/15/01 - added Amtrak 800000 movement numbers index page
12/15/01 - added full Superliner roster at end of 'honorary' Sightseer Lounge page
01/10/02 - counter exceeded 8000 hits, but ALSO shows nearly 12,000 hits.
01/13/02 - changed counters - see note below missing photos list
01/16/02 - counters exceeded 20,000 hits 01/19/02 - GN 1322 - 3 to go
02/01/02 - counter exceeded 21,000 hits
02/20/02 - counter exceeded 22,000 hits on 2nd anniversary of counter
02/23/02 - revamped site - added page index to every page - also added photo credit to each individual shot.
03/11/02 - MP 893 - 2 to go
05/01/02 - split UP & CBQ pages (too large). "Name" tagged all 236 cars so they can be accessed individually. Revamped all "RR" pages with direct links from the text to any other referenced page. Began secondary page linkbacks to the "name" tags for every car mentioned.
05/21/02 - completed linkbacks from above - added new pages for NRC, Monad, Rail Ventures, car diagrams.
06/12/04 - have not kept this up. Added many features over last couple years, but just got a new webtvbox with expanded memory and added 236 new pages so every car photo index is on new page and "favorites" link direct to PB indexes. Involved making new directorys as well as link pages (had to copy html on every one). Took approx 3 solid weeks of work. Next project will be thumbnails if feasable.
C A R C O U N T S
Square-end lounge-observations (19)
UP-15
CB&Q-4
Round-end lounge-observations (7)
C&O-3
CB&Q-2
GM-1
WAB-1
Round-end sleeper-observations (25)
CP-18
CB&Q-4
WP-2
D&RGW-1
Sleepers (15)
NP-8
C&O-3
CB&Q-2
SP&S-1
GM-1
Diners (11)
UP-10
GM-1
Food Service/lounges (35)
AT&SF-6
CP-18
CB&Q-7
WP-2
D&RGW-1
WAB-1
Coaches (87)
CB&Q-24
UP-15
GN-12
NP-8
WP-7
MP-6
D&RGW-4
WAB-4
B&O-2
SP&S-2
GM-1
IGN-1
T&P-1
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