Howdy. First off, excuse the cross posting in several venues.
I have over the last several years posted several versions of the car card and waybill generator databases I have built in Microsoft Access. I have recently posted my latest version in the files sections of the CarCards and Rwy-Ops-IndustrialSIG Yahoo Groups in a CCGv7 folder.
Car Card Generator v7 has many improvements over the last version I posted (v3.4). the major reason I rewrote it was I wasn’t happy with the way waybills were created. I wanted something that allowed the user to look only for those industries that used a particular commodity or type. CCGv7 achieves that goal for me.
This application is designed for my operation and my use primarily, so there are a couple quirks that are distinctly mine. The major one being that I use “blocks” to drive my switching, routing and train building processes (just like the prototype does). A block is a code or name given to a group of cars that will be handle together as a group on the train. For example if you have 10 cars in the yard for Houston, you could put them together on one train and it would be a Houston block, or if you model Chicago and there was a car for Los Angeles, it might have an LA destination but be in a WEST or ATSF block. Way handy for yard switching and train building.
Some features of the new version:
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Improved definition of the cars and commodities an industry uses
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Improved input of waybills
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Improved printing of waybills (multiple sheets can be printed at the same time)
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Expanded roster information with more DCC related info
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Ability to put photos on equipment cards
-&n