Rolling Stock Inventory
macOS lacks a true model railroad rolling stock inventory program, and RailModeller would be a perfect fit, as it could piggyback off of the existing Track Stock database already built into the program. The existing database already keeps track of:
Name
Part Number
Manufacturer
Price
Rolling stock would just need some additional values to keep track of:
-Photo
-Stock type (Steam locomotive/Electric locomotive/diesel locomotive/Hi-Railer/passenger car/freight car/caboose/custom value)
-Length
-Height
-Minimum radius curve support
-Operating options (conventional/DCC/DCS/TMCC/Legacy/custom)
-Year manufacturered
-Year acquired
-MSRP
-Price paid
-Custom notes
-Custom weblink (ie more info, link to manufacturer site, etc)
It would be up to the end user to enter this data, of course, via a simple data entry form for each piece of stock.
A neat feature to add down the road (since we'd be recording the height and length of the rolling stock piece) would be the ability to drop a piece of rolling stock onto the layout for scale/visibility reference in both the 2D and 3D views. It would help to gauge both vertical and horizontal clearance when planning curves, bridges, and tunnels, and would also be a good way to mock up the layout to see how things might look with some rolling stock placed in different areas.
Thanks for your input!
There’s already a solution for macOS and iOS out there, “xMoVe”.
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/xmove/id842432230?l=en&mt=12
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Rafi commented
Thanks for the recommendation! That product somehow missed my radar--I just purchased both the iOS and macOS versions and will give them a shot! Thanks again!
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Thanks for your input!
There's already a solution for macOS and iOS out there, "xMoVe".
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/xmove/id842432230?l=en&mt=12At the moment we have no plans to create a model railroad rolling stock inventory program of our own - in particular as the market for model train apps is quite limited from our experience and unfortunately even more so when it comes to more specialized apps serving only a fraction of this already modest market..