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Version 1.0.0 for Windows 9x, NT, 2000, XP

5 years of development has produced this leap forward in computerized car routing. This system is based not on sessions, but on the date you are modeling. You can run as many trains as you want, or not at all, for any given date. This program works by setting up shipments between an origin and destination, based upon date and season frequency. Ship to other layouts running this software. Linked layouts do not have to be the same scale! 

Work in any one of three modes: 

  • Simple Layout Management (freeware, limited functionality, waybills only)
  • Relative Layout Management (full functionality, does not use specific car numbers)
  • Absolute Layout Management (full functionality, requires car numbers)
Some Feature Highlights:
¨     Realistic shipment of goods, including:
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Unlimited number and complexity of shipments
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Unlimited shipments to industries on different routes or branch lines
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Tag unit trains to a specific shipment
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Create one-time shipments at any time
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Perform through freight shipments between any two yards
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View shipments from many angles to find those industries missing shipments
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View shipments as a flow from industry to industry, so as to maintain consistency of shipments
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Run extra trains to relocate full or empty cars to any required location
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Easy-to-read Switchlist Sheets that show where cars are to be picked up and dropped off
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Local switchlists for local locomotives preceding incoming trains.
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Standard-sized waybills for each car moved
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Unable to place a car because an industry is full?  Then place the car anywhere you want. 
   The next train will have that car in its Switchlist.
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Both Industry and Passing sidings can be in either scale feet or number of cars
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Exchange shipments with other layouts running this software.
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Import and export database to ACSII file format.

¨      Event Logging, including:
ü      Tracking history of movements for every car and locomotive
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Tracking the number of shipments going in and out for every industry
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Tracking the number and last date of each shipment
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Logging your own maintenance history for rolling stock and locomotives

 ¨      Prototype and simulate activity for any historical date.  Move that date forward in one of three methods:  In sync with actual time (date moves forward for each day in real time), increase the date every time the app fires up (new day for each startup on a new real day), or increase the date manually.  Regardless of the default date advance, you can advance the date manually.

 ¨      Generate many reports on the status of your layout

 ¨      Create realistic, deployable schedules for your trains

 ¨      Includes a fully functional demo layout of an actual railroad line

 ¨      Reset your layout to start over at any time

 ¨      Yard Track Classification

... and much much more.  Read the On-Line Documentation for full description of software functionality.