Track planning on the Mac
Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 9:31 PM | Mac, Model Railroading | 1

Most model railroad track planning software is Windows-only. Empire Express 1.5 runs on Macs — including OS X — and is relatively simply to use, but limited. For one thing, it doesn’t appear to handle grades and separations. This is important if you’re hoping that the track on top will clear the track beneath it, or if you’re trying to keep your grades under control. (I’m doodling with ideas of geared locomotives and logging railroads, which means grades can go nuts, but still.)

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Comments

Brandon Bayer, April 6 at 5:21 PM:

Empire Express is a good ‘doodling’ program but has many problems for actually planning. Many idiosyncarcies include track radii indicated in the info box that clearly aren’t right.

Biggest problem is it’s virtually never upgraded… problems reported or suggestions submitted are never dealt with.

I think it must have been a hobby project, and the programmer got bored.

There’s a user group on Yahoo, but VERY few posts. groups.yahoo.com/group/Empire_Express