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Welcome
Welcome to Ship It! (by rail of course), the prototypical operations generator for model
railroads. Ship It! automates the process of generating operating sessions. No longer will
you have to spend hours planning out your operating sessions, or track mountains of
paperwork. Once your pike’s database has been built, a simple click of a button will generate a new operating session for you. Ship It! is not a random car movement generator every car movement is based on the requests of the shippers and consignees (receivers) on
your layout. Ship It! is designed to mimic the prototype, hence the name. As you begin to
enter your layout’s information into the computer, you will begin to feel like a shipping
agent overseeing a living transportation network. It doesn’t matter whether your layout is
a 4 x 8 oval or a club-size layout as big as a barn - realistic operation is possible on it,
and Ship It! can help bring it to life.
Key Features
- All car movement is caused by the requests of shippers & consignees - nothing is
random.
- Loads and empties are routed across divisions via interchange trackage.
- Hidden and fiddle staging is supported (off-line towns & industries can be simulated).
- Individual cars can move more than once during an operating session.
- Empties are scheduled as well as loads.
- Car dwell time (duration) can be set for each product shipped (and received).
- Number of cars (amount) can be set for each product shipped (and received).
- Frequency of shipments can be set for each product sent to a consignee.
- Car lading and location is tracked through time.
- Switchlists include train schedules & Conductor & Engineer instructions.
- Supports Local vs. Through Train Types (local - through - local).
- All Databases can be printed out.
- Shares its database with Railbase Professional (our inventory program).
- Status (number of cars, lading, etc.) of all industries can be printed out (Industry Status Report)
- Select multiple locomotives and develop helper service.
- Print out Yard Arrival and Yard Departure Reports, Train Length Reports - more than 24 reports in all!
- Division Diagnostics.
- Connect up to 6 divisions via one interchange. Multiple interchanges (unlimited) per division.
- Set priorities for shippers and consignees.
- Industry Activity Report charts shipments and arrivals across many sessions.
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