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#1

This is a a seriously, long stretch, I know.

Has anyone considered the idea of an all-encompassing car & engine database for all the manufacturers?

I know Aristo had the “UnCatalog”, there is that USAT Group that is rebuilding on facebook, there is the GBDB which is supposed to be what I’m thinking, but its just not very well maintained or organized.

What I would like to find is a database where a person can look up a manufacturer, then an item, and see every road name that was printed on that car/engine.

Does anyoen have back-end database & server-side programming skills they’d lend to such an effort? I’m thinking that each entry would indexed with the manufacturer, the equipment type and the road name. Then a visitor could search based on any of their own criteria.

Thoughts?

#2

There’s a guy in Canada (who’s name escapes me–I think it was Knut) started one on his website.

#3

I think this is what you refer to John. I believe a lot of work is already done on it. This link came from the General Forum of the Aristo-Craft Forum.

http://www.gbdb.info/

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http://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/index.htm

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#6

You’ll find Knut on the LGB Yahoo group.

#7

You will find Knut everywhere… he’s on mls, the USAT forum, etc.

Having to go to LGB is a bit extreme, ha ha!

Greg

#8

Greg Elmassian said:

You will find Knut everywhere… he’s on mls, the USAT forum, etc.

Having to go to LGB is a bit extreme, ha ha!

Greg

He usually draws the line when registration requires a real name instead of a pseudonym, some people are funny about that.

#9

Hans, I prefer real names. Trying to carry on a serious conversation, with some of the pseudonyms people use, can be “difficult”.

#10

David Maynard said:

Hans, I prefer real names. Trying to carry on a serious conversation, with some of the pseudonyms people use, can be “difficult”.

So do I, so do I. Those “cute” names always leave the impression that people have something to hide.

#11

Given the names that some so-called celebrities give their kids , it’s no wonder that pseudonyms exist .

Would you really take seriously a bloke called “Heaven Sent” or “Butterfly Wonder” ?------just think up a daft name to complete the list and you may rethink pseudonyms .

Mike Moron

#12

Regarding the http://www.gbdb.info database; one of the big advantages is that many (all?) of the different versions of a given item get listed. This along with the links to the different user manuals can solve quite a few problems.

As far as LGB user manuals go I also highly recommend https://www.champex-linden.de/cl_pi_lgb_datenbank.htm which features the old LGB database with German or English language versions.

And here comes the plug for Champex-Linden: excellent service, large selection - including “stuff” that is hard to get in NA.

#13

Does anyone know of a data base program to keep track of my own trains? One that pictures of items can be downloaded into.

Thanks

Kevin

#14

This place might be what you want.

I WOULD NOT USE IT AS I HAVE GRAVE DOUBTS ABOUT SECURITY ANYWHERE ON THE NET.

http://www.collector-modeltrains.com/dash/mycollection/main/

#15

Don,

Thanks. Agree with you on the security issue on the net. Just looking for a program I can use on my PC.

Really don’t want to share on a site>

Kevin

#16

Kevin, I just use Excel to keep a roster of my trains. Road-name/number, type, scale, manufacturer and notes.

#17

David,

Yep, have an excel now. Just wanted to kick it up a notch.

Kevin

#18

A notch? My idea is someday…so many someday projects…my idea is someday, to link a picture of each entry to the entry. That is about all of the notch kicking I plan on doing.

I had just finished reorganizing my Excel roster, adding notes and removing the outdated notations, when my computer tanked. Fortunately Dave was able to recover most of what I had. So I only had to do a little repair to my current roster. So kids, keep back ups of everything you don’t want to loose.

#19

yardoffice …

http://www.musicmixradio.com/yardoffice/

Greg

#20

Cool.