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RailOP - Operate your Model Railroad!!

Basic vs. Advanced

BASIC VERSION ADVANCED VERSION
The Basic Version of the program includes all of the essentials that you need to control and run your operating sessions:
  • Layout description, route descriptions, car files, engine files, train files.
  • Make up trains.
  • Print Manifests, Switch Lists, car locations, car rosters, and reports.
  • Run trains from city to city, etc.
The Advanced Version of the program includes the following features that are not in the Basic Version:
  • Virtual Car Cards! [-]
    • Up to 6 sequential destinations (or 7 if returning to original location).
    • One-time use or can repeat indefinitely.
    • Logical routing - each move is checked with the routes and trains available.
  • Customize car information printing on train Manifests.
  • Graphical Dispatcher Panel [-]
    • Move trains through their routes with the mouse, completing switching operations in each city, with up to 30 trains active at any one time.
  • Schedule operations "by the clock". [-]
    • Travel times between cities are controlled route by route, and city by city.
    • Switching times in each city are separately adjustable.
    • Used in setting the arrival and departure times for trains in each city.
  • "Time charts" for trains and cities, indentifying possible traffic congestion problems.
  • Print Yardmaster Switch Lists by priority or time of train arrival and departure. Yardmasters can determine what to work on first.


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