Best railroad design software for Macintosh

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I have been using Cadrail for the design of my new model railroad. I just bought an iMac. I would like to switch to Mac OS railroad design software. What would everyone recommend? - Nevin

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Hi NevinW,

I have been using Empire Express from Haddon Software. Seems to be easy to learn and did a good job for me.

http://www.haddonsoftware.com/

You are going to love your iMac!

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I’ve been a Mac user for may years and I’m glad I made the switch. I also use the Empire Express software, and it does a wonderful job. And it’s very inexpensive. Good luck.

Jason

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Thanks to both of you. I had one of the first 512K Macs back in the early 1980’s. I loved it but I was forced to switch to PC’s due to work. Setting up a PC is always a 4 hour job and something always doesn’t work. I bought this iMac yesterday and plugged it in. Everything worked immediately. It even found the wireless network on its own. Amazing. I’ll check out this software. Thanks again. - Nevin

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Haven’t turned off, or rebooted my mac, for other than software installs and my relocation in over seven years…

For the sake of options Rail Modeller http://www.railmodeller.com/ is another good choice, and the one i’m currently using. Actually i would really like to merge features of both.

Both offer downloadable demo’s from their sites, and are comparably priced, so i don’t think you could go wrong with either.

jason

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Another vote for RailModeller. It’s a very nice package that has an active user community and it’s easy to contact the developer if you have a problem.