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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, December 8, 2013 7:39 AM

Mr. Baker should know.  He did most of my initial layout design for me with RR Tracks.  All to scale.  Then I printed it out on a big blueprint paper.  When I made modifications, was easy as to scale and worked great. 

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Posted by dbaker48 on Saturday, December 7, 2013 9:27 PM

I have used RR track quite a bit, I have not used all the features it is rather extensive.  I don't have any complaints at all.  It does have a learning curve to get thru, and isn't free.  But, I have certainly got my money out of it.  (I even used it as a cad drawing packing for making detailed plans on building a storage shed.)

There is another one available called SCRAM, it is FREE, however I havn't used it and not familiar with it.

SCARM - the free model railroad layout design software.

Don

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Posted by ChiefEagles on Saturday, December 7, 2013 8:36 PM

riverrailfan

Atlas used to have free software. I see on their website they don't offer it anymore.

 

I've used RR-Track before. It was aquite a few years ago. but saved me time and money figuring out what pieces I needed to put the layout together with FT

 

http://www.rrtrack.com/

 

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Posted by riverrailfan on Saturday, December 7, 2013 12:31 AM

Atlas used to have free software. I see on their website they don't offer it anymore.

 

I've used RR-Track before. It was aquite a few years ago. but saved me time and money figuring out what pieces I needed to put the layout together with FT

 

http://www.rrtrack.com/

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Layout software
Posted by Lockwood on Friday, December 6, 2013 7:01 AM

Which software is the best for track layout. I am using Atlas O nickel silver 3 rail track. Does anyone have any suggestions about layout software. 

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