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Explanations for the parts of the site. Pick a topic; the detailed steps are with purchases, sales, sets and articles.
Getting started
- Getting startedTrainiac is a place to keep track of your model railway collection: what you own, what you paid, what you still want, which trains you put together and what is…
- Account and licenceCreate an account with your e-mail address and a password of at least 10 characters (a sentence of several words works well). You receive an e-mail with a confi…
Catalogue
- Searching the catalogueThe catalogue is the shared list of all articles. You can browse and search it; changing it is only possible through a proposal that gets reviewed.
- Viewing an articleAn article page shows the number and description at the top, the buttons below that, and then tabs.
- Changing or completing an articleThe catalogue belongs to everyone and is improved by its members, like a wiki. That is why you can propose a change on every article. A change is always kept in…
- Requesting an articleIs your article not in the catalogue? Request it. The article becomes visible to everyone and you can add it to your collection right away.
Collection
- Your collectionHere is everything you own and everything you sold. Each item gets its own purchase number at purchase, which is never reused, not even if you later delete the…
- Recording a purchaseYou record a purchase from the catalogue: open the article and choose Add purchase. A window opens with three blocks: What, Where and Price. Only the purchase d…
- Selling an itemYou sell from your collection: open the item and choose Sell. The item does not disappear from your records, but gets the status Sold and your profit or loss is…
- Sets and incomplete setsA set is a package with several items, for example a starter set or a train set with a locomotive and wagons. In the catalogue the set itself is the article; it…
- Creating an own (personal) articleAn own article exists only in your records and is visible to nobody else. Use it for things that do not belong or fit in the catalogue:
- PhotosYou can use photos in three places. They follow the same rules: JPEG, PNG or HEIC (iPhone), at most 15 MB per photo. Every photo is checked and reduced (at most…
Planning and building
- The wish listPut here what you still want, with an indicative price. That way you know roughly what it will cost.
- Train set-upsA train set-up is a train or rake that you put together from articles: a locomotive with wagons, a multiple unit, a run with everything that belongs to it. You…
- Layout buildHere you keep track of what you place on and remove from your model layout, with photos and costs. That way you later know what is there, what it cost and what…