Douglas,

Welcome to the ProTrak community. I saw your first inquiry while we were traveling but I didn't have my ProTrak Forum PW with me at that time. Yes I know that was bad form <g>. I thought I had it memorized but....

Anyway a couple of comments

1. Glad that you are working thru the PTBM successfully. Doug Seymour, from way up in NW Canada, did a fantastic job in writing the PTBM. I helped Doug with the editing of the document as he developed it. Remember that the PTBM is current wrt ProTrak Version 303, I believe.  So you will see some differences in the screen images he presents.

2. You mentioned that you are using ProTrak Ver. 360 (OUCH). Most of us in the long term ProTrak community do not use anything beyond Ver. 348.  Jim Moir did a massive update to ProTrak in Version 350 following a ProTrak Weekend in the spring of 2017.  Most of us do not think that the impact of all those changes had ever been fully ferreted out before Jim's passing almost two years ago.  I spent several months this spring vacillating between Ver. 352 and 348 and settled on Ver. 348. Jim Brewer another long term ProTrak user and a member of this forum brought to my attention this spring that Jim Moir said to NEVER go from one version of ProTrak DOWN to an older version.  Thus if you are just following the PTBM and building the Pro Demonstrator railroad you are certainly free to continue on with Ver. 360.  HOWEVER when you get ready to build the ProTrak Data Folder (PDF) for you own layout may I kindly urge you to go way back and redownload the new user zip file which you obviously did once successfully in the past, and then do the Ver. 348 User Update.  A significant benefit of using Ver. 348 when you build the PDF for your own layout is that if you need help you could send the PDF for your layout to any of us and ask for help. In early August I helped one of our other new members with his PDF, but he had used ProTrak version 253, the version in the new user download zip file, and I was using Ver. 348. I'm 99+% sure that some of the things I saw in his PDF, that I didn't expect a new user to be familiar with, were caused by the different versions of ProTrak he and I were using. A simply change in the format/meaning of control bits, user option bits, status bits etc. internal to ProTrak between two versions can make a big difference.

Joe Brann

Orlando, FL

Douglas.

1. As far as I can recall there never was a Part 2, nor App. N. Ill health befell Doug Seymour and his grand plans were terminated.

2. But wrt branch lines try clicking on The Railroad / Subdivisions Junctions, Names and Notes. Hopefully that will let you set up a junction point to a branch line.  I have two on my layout.

3.Importing car data w/o Appendix N -  Get Version 1.2 of Appendix L which is a compendium of Questions from ProTrak users and Answers from Jim Moir.  These Q-s and A-s came from the old Yahoo ProTrak site and also from the newer ProTrak forum over a long period of years. Look on page L-75 for information in importing cars.

4. Keep Appendix L Ver 1.2 handy as it has a lot of valuable and useful information. 

Joe Brann

Orlando, FL

JAJ

Thanks for sharing your success with ProTrak Ver. 360. Did you start using ProTrak with Version 360 or did you progress up from older versions? Shortly after Jim passed away almost 2 years ago his widow directed that the source code was not to leave the family. Also the code is massive. I recall at a ProTrak weekend about 6 years ago at Andy Keeney's massive and wonderful Nashville Road layout Jim commented that if he were to print the source code for ProTrak it would take over 15,000 (15K) pages.  That's a lot of trees.

Joe Brann

Orlando, FL