Ship IT! - Operations Software

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Ø Car movement is never random with Ship It! Just tell Ship It! the products that your industries ship and receive, and it will create car movements between them, even across divisions.

Ø Never create another operating session by hand! Get rid of all the paperwork except the switchlist. Give your trains a reason to roll! Ship It! is the solution to the operations requirements of your model railroad empire.

Ø This program uses a powerful database system to set up your divisions, towns, rolling stock, industries (shippers and consignees) and most importantly the shipping requirements between industries. Once this set-up has been completed Ship It! generates switchlists for your operating sessions which are based on your setup.

Ø If you want to have true prototypical operation of your layout then Ship It! is the product for you.

Ø In addition Ship It! can be integrated with Railbase Professional to perform Inventory Management, Ship It! Car Cards to generate printed cards and Ship It! Scheduler to generate graphic charts of your train movements.

Some of the key features of Ship IT! include:

All car movement is caused by the requests of shippers & consignees
Loads and empties are routed across divisions via interchange tracks
Hidden and Fiddle Staging is supported (off-line towns & industries are supported) for both Thru and local pickups.
Individual cars can move more than once during an operating session.
Car dwell time (Duration) can be set for each product shipped
Frequency of shipments can be set for each product sent to a consignee
Switchlists include train schedules and Conductor and Engineer instructions
Many different reports (24+) can be printed out
Support for Thru and local Trains
Departure times for train schedules, switchlists, etc.
Easy to Use
Sample Layouts and Tutorial Supplied
Support for Multiple Locomotives
Many more features than can be mentioned here.

This program is geared towards the serious operator, yet it makes it easy for the novice to develop operations.

Version 6 is now available and contains these additional features:

Stuck Car Processing - the program can now move cars that have stood still for a selectable period of time to a destination of your choice. There is a default destination, but different industries can move cars to different locations.
Exaggerate Siding Capacity - this allows you to increase siding size by a specific number or percentage, based on the type of industry. This is a valuable aid in testing, and for increasing car movement. This does not affect "Start Fresh".
Faster Session Generation
Database Repair Program is now included. This program can repair corrupted databases by simply clicking on a button. This program will test (and fix if necessary) the file integrity of every database used by Ship It! and/or our other programs. Protect your database!

Version 5 added the following enhancements and new features:

All programs are now 32 bit and will run on WIN 95, WIN 98, WIN ME, WIN NT, WIN 2000 and Win XP
Improved car movement
Diagnostics: Find out why that car did not move last session!
Backup and Restore your Ship It! Database
Paper Saving Switchlist Improvements
Silent Error Mode (session generation)
Multiple Session Generation
Improved Division Diagnostics
Export Car Moves (comma-delimited output)
More Options for tailoring your database
New Blocking Sort
and more........

Ship It! has a number of add-ons programs that share the underlying database and give you even more functionality, click for more details:

- Ship Car Cards – Allows you to print traditional card cards in addition to switch lists.

- Ship It Scheduler – allows you to generate train graphs and thus graphically see the schedule of your trains

- Railbase Professional – allows you to establish an inventory of all of you rolling stock for insurance and other purposes.

System Requirements: 95/98,2000/XP, Minimum 486 CPU, 4 MByte RAM, 5 MByte Harddisk space, 3½" HD Floppy disk drive, Mouse, VGA Graphics, Printer Support via Windows

Ship IT! V6 (Full Version) $134.95 Order

Order Code: S-SH6 Media CD-ROM

All prices are in Canada Dollars - Exchange Rates

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RailTronics last updated this page on October 1, 2006.