What is Surviving World Steam Vehicles?

"Surviving World Steam Vehicles Surviving World Steam Vehicles is a program for Microsoft Windows. Included is a database containing roughly 50% of the steam Vehicles still in existence worldwide. It includes steam vehicles under construction, preserved, working, stored, and dumped or derelict. Included in the database are

Traction Engines
Steam Rollers
Steam Cars and Carriages
Portable Steam Engines
Semi-Portable (including Donkey) Engines
Steam Fire Pumpers
Steam Wagons (Lorries)
Steam Shovels, Cranes, and Draglines (not mounted on rails or ships)
Oddities such as Steam Bicycles, Lawnmowers, and Loggers!

Each is stored as a single record, which can be thought of as an index card. Each record (or index card) is subdivided into several sections, or fields. Each field stores a single item pertaining to that vehicle, such as its name, builder, or location. Browse through the database, one record at a time, just as you might browse through a stack of index cards; or view them all at once, in the form of a listing. Use the program's menu to view only certain vehicles, and sort by most of the fields - Name, Class (or Model), Type, Original Owner, Location, Builder, or Year.

Use Surviving World Steam Vehicles at a steam rally, thresher's meet or other steam meet to identify the vehicles there. (No internet connection is needed!) Pictures can also be added from the Internet and other sources.
Use a scanner or digital camera to add photographs of the vehicles you have found to the database! The program then becomes a database of your pictures.
Use Surviving World Steam Vehicles as a study tool, to examine the various design features of the remaining steam vehicles.
If you are a modeler, you can use Surviving World Steam Vehicles for tracking down survivors in order to take photographs or measurements.
Surviving World Steam Vehicles can be used as part of a kiosk in a museum exhibit. Photos of museum steam vehicles can be digitized and added to the database. (Surviving World Steam Vehicles has a kiosk mode that attempts to protect both the data and PC while allowing visitors to browse through the records you select; directions for setting up the kiosk are included in the Users Guide.)
Unlike a book, Surviving World Steam Vehicles is updated bi-annually. These updates are available at a very reasonable cost to all Surviving World Steam Vehicles subscribers. In addition to the updated database, each update contains additional pictures and an "Update Wizard", which transfers your current pictures and sound clip links to the update as part of the update process.

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