ProTrak Evaluation is a full featured program; however, the license expires after 60 days or 10 sessions.
- The data describes a 1988 era North South generic-data railroad
- Stations, staging, subdivision, and yard data is sample railroad (can not be changed)
- Some support data is restricted in scope
The ProTrak Sampler Evaluation Version shows you:
- exactly what ProTrak looks like on your computer
- data resources that are built into ProTrak
- how you enter data into ProTrak
- how you can plan your railroad
- how many staging tracks – exactly
- how many industries
- how many switching trains to serve those customers
- how many through trains
- how many yards, and how big
- how many crew do you need
- how to keep your crews busy throughout the session
- how you can plan the operations on your railroad
- how you can run an operating session in ProTrak
Railroad data:
- You will see that data already built into ProTrak includes:
- example industries (over 8000) in ProTrak format
- commodities
- complete STCC to 5 digits, with some to 7 digits
- with “Waybill Sample” data associated
- steam (rod) locomotives
- geared locomotives
- diesel locomotives
- car mechanical kinds by era
- brake schedules, train-blocking patterns…