Just received this from SAA. Looks like no one is moving from PhotoShelter to DRR.

“To our valued Members:
We’re sorry to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has shut down.

On October 15th we reported that the company had reduced its staff and was aggressively pursuing additional financing and/or a strategic partner. Unfortunately, those efforts were unsuccessful. Therefore Digital Railroad has been forced to suspend all operations.

This archive may only be accessible for the next 24 hours.

Digital Railroad has attracted a loyal set of members. Thank you for allowing us to serve the photographic community these past few years.

All questions pertaining to claims should be addressed to:
Digital Railroad, Inc.
c/o Diablo Management Group
1452 N. Vasco Road, #301
Livermore, CA 94551″

Included in the DRR archive are some power hitters. Wonder where they’ll head?

NBC Universal Photo Bank
UPI NewsPictures
VII Photo Agency
Blend mages
Eve Photographers

DRR Agency Directory

PhotoShelter, recovering from the failure of its Collection last month, apparently has used some of their programming talent to update the Archive with new templates including a Flash slide show that resembles the look of Livebooks although it isn’t as sophisticated. That doesn’t mean it won’t be. Livebooks has just introduced monthly billing and Rob Haggart’s APhotoFolio has more attractive pricing as the market for Flash driven photographer Web sites has increased.

It will be interesting to see if PhotoShelter expands its Flash interface to include the choice of more than one gallery with a pull-down menu for the splash page. This would make it of a portfolio page than a set of links to galleries.

Guess we’ll have to wait for version 2.0.1