I use Excel. It makes a data base that I can use. I keep things like prototype length in feet, purchase date, reporting marks, maintenance history, purchase price, and more. Excel will sort on anything in the database. And from using Excel in my old day job, I a pretty familiar with it. And you can embed BASIC code in an Excel spread sheet to do just about anything.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
PRR01 I am looking for something a step up from Excel.
What do you consider a step up from Excel? What is your purpose in having a train database? Are you interested in having a nicer input screen, or are you looking for something that will track operations across you layout? Because if you are just looking to store data about your equipment, you are just going to have a data table--which is something Excel excels at.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Are there any useful train inventory software programs? I am looking for something a step up from Excel. A lot of the discussions I found on MR or google are really old, and links to many systems don't exist.