Re: CR and SAR Carriage Information

["Chris Drymalik" <drymalik@arcom.com.au>]

Unfortunately the information is in a strange format used by IBM mainframes
(DCF coding). I no longer work in a mainframe environment, hence I need to
convert it to another format so that I can continue to update it (for
personal research reasons). HTML seemed the best way to go as it seems to be
a reasonable format for future expansion. Also I need to check on the
accuracy of a lot of the stuff already written.

Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in message
01be9928$d14bcd20$0c2d11cb@rodsmith">news:01be9928$d14bcd20$0c2d11cb@rodsmith...
> David Bromage seems to have categories in Railpage for most useful
> information.
>
> Surely editing your work to html to mount it as a web page is *more* work
> than simply transferring files to cd.
>   I am certainly interested in seeing the material.
>
> --
> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor
>
> Chris Drymalik <drymalik@arcom.com.au> wrote in article
> <37297c45.0@kastagir.senet.com.au>...
> > I have accumulated a lot of information about Commonwealth Railways and
> > South Australia Railways carriages that I would like to eventually put
> out
> > on a CD rom with photos. (This off course includes information about the
> AN
> > and GSR period of ownership of the cars). I have been working on coding
> it
> > up in HTML for about 12 months and feel that my motivation is decliding,
> so
> > as an alternative, if some demand exits, I will try to cut the
> information
> > down to a reasonable size (it's currently over 60MB but I can get rid of
> the
> > most of the photos the text is about 10MB) and put it up as a web site.
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions as to what I should do, then let me know.
> If I
> > get no response (via E-mail to keep group traffic down) I will assume no
> one
> > wants me to continue this project. Some of the information also pertains
> to
> > Victorian named cars and Commonwealth Railways freight wagons.
> >
> > I also have a large amount of information on Commowwalth Railway
> locomotive,
> > including steam, that didn't make it into the Port Dock book "Loco and
> > railcar of the Commonwealth Railways" because of space and relevance.
> >
> > Hints about a suitable free hosting site would also be appreciated.
> >
> > Over to you
> >
> >
> >