Album: Version 2

The Car Management screen, reached by clicking on the first menu button. This originally started off as a simple means of generating yard reports, showing the location of all cars spotted on the layout. However, I soon realized that the Track and Seq fields could serve double duty. They were originally intended to specify the track to which a car was spotted and its sequence relative to other cars on that track (1 being the east-most car, 2 being the car west of that, etc.). However, adding train and interchanging railroad identifiers to the list of valid track values also allowed me to generate train lists and interchange reports using the same data. Now I can update all my car information in one place and then generate all reports my crews need for an operating session.
By: Joe Atkinson

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