General Discussion (Model Railroader)

I do not have this software, but am taking a hard look at it. For $45.00 list price, you can pay it off by designing a couple of background buildings instead of buying a couple of Cornerstone background model kits.

A lot depends on what kind of printer you have. I have an Epson Stylus Photo R200 I bought at Staples. It is designed for printing photos as well as general printing. It has 6 cartriges, so when you run out of a color you just change that cartrige instead of throwing away a partially empty "color cartrige" where one of 3 internal colors has run dry. I have made a lot of signs with this printer, and that come out great. I use Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper for the signs. I have also made decals with some sucess, but need more practice on this.

Someone asked about magazine reviews, their site references a number including MR, Classic Toy Trains, Scale Rails and others. There are also customer reviews in this page.

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/evdesore.html

The site also has a "Walk-Thru Video" of how the software works. From the looks, anyone who has done any graphics design, Photoshop, Powerpoint or similar software could jump into it easily.

http://www.modeltrainsoftware.com/mbvideo.html

BigRusty:

Do you have any pictures of your New Haven Union Station? I spent some time there as a kid-one of my Uncles was a Conductor. Part of my layout will be based on the N.Y., N.H. & H. R.R.

Any help appreciated.

Sorry. This a huge building, even in HO scale. over 4 feet long by 2 feet wide so I have just experimented with printing the transparent windows on just one of the sections. The result is very satisfactory. The only problem is, as in real life, it exposes the entire waiting room to view so I will have to detail the interior. I have accumulated enough color photos so that I can do it up right hopefully. I am just building a test loop in my garage at present so there is no room for it at present. When I get the time I will start assembling it and display it

Blind Bruce wrote:

Looks nice and not too expensive. One question though, If you select the 110 lb cardstock, will it go through a "normal" ink jet printer or will it cause problems when it tries to bend around the innards of the printer?

Check your printer manual.  Some printers have a feed slot where you can feed single sheets of card stock that won't have to bend around.