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Railroad Inventory Data
Nelson writes:
“My daughter suggested an Excel Spreadsheet as the best way to keep a record of my trains: model type and number, date purchased, working condition, wheels, length, DCC, maintenance history, purchase price etc. She has offered to set it up for me and teach me how to use the software. It could be handy, but will the effort outweigh the benefit? What have others found? Thank you in advance.”
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I have used Model Train Catalogue now for a number of years, it was a free download and contains all the files and directories for listing all your railway loco’s rolling stock and infrastructure items. It also provides the ability to write comments on any mod’s you do to your models. I have found it to be an excellent register for my railway equipment.
Hi Nelson,
first, your daughter is right but why re-event the wheel?
There are tons of samples and ready-to-use templates for that all over the web. What I suggest is to pick one and give it an enhancement i.e. new columns or include pictures or – better – links to them. For example years ago I adapted a LibreOffice-Calc-Sheet for my needs.
Because of the possibility for extending or even creating tabs and maybe forms I would suggest Excel/LibreOffice rather than ready “.exe”-solutions.
Even MS-Access or MySQL database solutions are possible.
Happy railroading from germany
Dirk