I enjoyed the Video. I Purchased the Micro-Mark years ago. I've tested out the Easy model Rairaod program and Excel and Acess. I decided to use the Micro-mark as I had already purchased. I'll probably use the software mentioned earlier for planning purposes.

At our club (Carquinez Model Railroad Society, Crockett, CA), we only attach the boxes to the fascia for the monthly operations. We use wing screws to attach the boxes to the fascia that have jack nuts or T-nuts installed.

You could use a french cleat on the boxes. You could put the cleats in several locations and then you could move the boxes around if needed. It would be more work than Velcro, but it would hold more weight and you could wood glue the box side and screw the side that attaches to your layout.

Mine live on a shelf below the benchwork - I like a really clean fascia without all the typical operations clutter. They stand upright well enough on their own so this works.

THANK YOU FOR DETAIL VIDEO AS GREAT WATCHING AS BASIC WAY SET OPERATION ON SMALL LAYOUT

I use the MM system too and agree with you about the quality and price. I attach my bill boxes to the fascia with flush head wood screws and furniture finish washers.

Very interesting. I thought Micro Mark only sold tools so thanks for sharing! Look forward to Part 2. -Mark

I attached the boxes to the layout with velcro strips

Awesome, I bought the car card system but haven't got them filled out 😆

IMRROcom (Eric) did a great video on his channel on how he does the car cards and waybill system. I'm following his lead as I know that will work best as I build my layout. Grande Pacific does their a little different through JMRI which I also use but I like the cards and waybills better IMO. I did get bins from MicroMark (2x 3bays & 2x 5bays). Extra bays are good to hold spare waybills and what not, just make sure you label each bin as to each storage track they represent whether yard or industry. I wanted something simple not just for me to run but for my kiddo and guest who never ran operations before. Closest club that I know of is 3 to 4 hours away from the area I live in.

You can also attach the bill boxes to the layout with Velcro.

Really impressive star-up! ;) May you tell me where to find the ''AAR'' type on the car card? Please let me know if you could. Thanks a lot :)

I have always be a little confused by the CC system. Most of my questions come from how cars are assigned to trains to achieve their waybill goals. I setup and have been using JMRI on my personal layout, but it to has is limitation. I unforntally do have anyone to operate with (one of the down sides to living in "flyover county") or have the ability to operate on others so I could become more familiar with car cards.

Hi John, nice explanation of how you use this system. Don't sell yourself short on making up your own forms though. You obviously have some computer skills and I'll bet it won't take you much time to make WORD work for your needs. And you can either get cardstock (110 lb. paper) at a local office supply place or take your digital files to a Kinko/Fed-Ex/local print shop and have them printed there. You may want to invest in a cheapo paper trimmer ($30) to cut things up or the print shop will be happy to help. I don't have a physical layout, but I've created a killer digital plan with my own names/locations. It's a lot more fun to run a train between two locations you know (or created) than use somebody else's locations. It's not hard, give it a go! Ghost of SP

I use 3/4 pan head screws, they work very nice for the job. If you look you can see them in the videos' The are at each end of the box just a little above the pockets so the screw is close to center on the horizontal of the box.

Did you get everything figured out? I am trying to create my Waybills, but I am not sure how I should be doing it.

Any chance you could share that "Excel tool"?