Those of you who have "Caboose Tracks" in your list of locations, might want to delete them! (even though you leave the tracks on your layout). RailOP...
Modelers may not tear down their layouts very often -- but sometimes they move -- as Norm Beveridge, Doug Farner and John McBee have done. If you build, or...
Frolin, You have done a great job. This group will make Phil a millionaire with all the orders. Jack Green MSRC [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Just in case you're curious, here's roughly how Autobuild actually works. 1 - It builds a list of all the sidings on the train's route where it can possibly do...
Phil Not sure of this but doesn't RailOp ask you to put the length of the Caboose in when you are adding cars to your list. I believe the program doesn't let ...
Several folks have indicated they'd like to hear more in general about what products are available and pros and cons. As I said in my intro, I've had two...
John - Caboose length is required, because it is used in determining the length of the train. Manufacturing, or car-build dates may be left blank, and are...
... John, I think some of the information is for record-keeping purposes only (if you want to use the car list as an inventory of you equipment). I have not ...
John, I wholeheartedly agree with your assesment. For years on the Sue Line, Mose Crews' "homegrown" computer switchlist program did wonders. It was a...
As we say in the deep south, just preaching to the choir. When our layout progressed to the operation mode, we set out to find a way to incorporate the ...
John, Phil, and others, I am REALLY new to RailOp. In fact I don't own a copy of the software. I joined the listserv a few days ago just to determine if this...
Jim, one of the things RailOp does (along with most of the other packages) is allow you to specify what kinds of cars each train handles. This has a lot of...
... the length of the train. ... really of interest only to layouts that may run different "eras" on their railroad at different times. ... I think two other...
James go to the web site and request the "free" demo version. It will be sent to you for you to peruse. I'm still looking over mine. The only thing that...
Hi Bill, That was one of the first things I was going to do once I had a couple of towns with associated industries down in Cadrail. However, I thought that...
Jim - If you don't have any cabooses, you don't have to worry about their length. You use only the types of cars you want to. You might want to go to...
if i can summarize...... don't worry about it! RailOp will let you select car types for the entire layout...then you will do the same for each train... ...
Thanks, Phil. I know from off-line e-mail that some of you were thinking that I simply ducked out of calculating the probability of car type A at destination...
thought i'd give a few points why someone considering a computerized switchlist program should make RailOp their number one choice: 1. RailOp let's you run...
Good advice, Phil. That is exactly what I have done. With 523 cars in the database alone, I would not want to re-enter all that data. This time around I will...
I hope about 7 of us would start a "hint of the day" sort of thing where we give a quick ditty about a particular feature of RailOp in use on our respective...
David, Thank you for your helpful thoughts. One of the reasons that I have been hesitant however is that I do NOT yet have an up and running layout. A little...
Hello There, I'm Bill Shanaman. I live out here in Colorado but I do not model any railraods here. I model the New Haven in the 1950-55 era. As I to have no...
In a message dated 3/3/2003 8:43:10 AM Central Standard Time, ... A point that might be of interest is the use of RailOp prior to having a railroad. I started...
Jerry, That is exactly what I was hoping one could do. A sort of "virtual" railroad until the physical railroad becomes a reality. Thanks for your comment. ...
RailOp can definitely be used before the railroad is built. My layout was partially built when I started with it, and as I added real sidings to the layout, I...
