About

SteamCentral was created in June 1999 to serve as a place where people interested in steam locomotives could find out what’s going on with steam locomotive operation and preservation. (See the 1999-2003 version of SteamCentral, in all its Web 1.0 loveliness, here.)

Today’s incarnation of SteamCentral uses RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and social networking to simultaneously agreggate and disperse information.

SteamCentral Posts:
Read SteamCentral front page posts at the SteamCentral web site, or in your RSS reader.

FriendFeed:
SteamCentral’s FriendFeed takes our front page posts and bundles them with all the information streams we’ve listed below.

Schedules:
The Schedules Page derives its content from Google Calendar. You can view it here, or:

Links:
SteamCentral’s links to interesting content around the web are kept online at del.icio.us.

Google Reader, YouTube and Flickr:
As we come across interesting news stories, YouTube videos, or Flickr photos we ‘favorite’ or ’share’ them.

Twitter:
SteamCentral’s writers and sources use the SteamCentral Twitter feed to announce new SteamCentral content, alert followers to interesting content on other web sites, and occasionally to gloat about a great runby from trackside. There are several ways to follow us:

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SteamCentral is based on the WordPress publishing platform. The presentation is modified from the ‘Modernpaper 1.0′ theme created by Performancing.com, and uses the following plugins and widgets: