"Multiple-Advanced Search Techniques"

The Item Search Windows work in concert with one another as the examples below show...

          2. Search using Railroad Road Name, like these:

Atlantic Coast Line Baltimore & Ohio Burlington Northern Canadian Pacific Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago NorthWestern CSX Denver & Rio Grande

Erie Lackawanna Florida East Coast Great Northern Illinois Central Jersey Central Lehigh Valley Long Island Railroad Louisville & Nashville

Maine Central Milwaukee Road Missouri Pacific New Haven New York Central Nickel Plate Road Norfolk Southern Norfolk & Western

Northern Pacific Penn Central Pennsylvania Reading Rio Grande Rock Island Santa Fe Seaboard

Southern Southern Pacific Texas & Pacific Union Pacific Wabash Western Maryland Western Pacific etc.

          3. Search with 95 different Train Categories - to name a few:

Accessory Aquarium Car Box Car Budd Car Caboose

Catalog Crane Car E-6 Electric Engine F-3

Fairbanks-Morse Flat Car FT GG-1 GP-7

GP-9 Hopper Instruction Sheets Motorized Units Mint Car

Ore Car Passenger Car Reefer SD Diesel Steam Locomotive

Stock Car Tank Car Tractor and Trailer Train Sets etc.

          and now including Categories, allowing you to inventory your Train Memorabilia. To name a few:

Artwork Bells Builders Plates

China, Hollowware, & Glassware Clocks & Watches Keys & Locks

Lanterns & Lamps Passes, Badges, Tags, & Buttons Pen & Pencils

Postcards & Postal Items Signs Tinware

          4. Search on Model Number   (in this example   Lionel Model Number   6014):

5. Search using MI Trains Software cross referencing for piece road markings which are not the Train Manufacturer's Model number - what MI Trains calls "alias links". For example: MTH Road Marking "306510" on the Chesapeake & Ohio Coil Car is really MTH Model Number 20-98263. No problem finding it within MI Trains! First, look up the road marking number on the car - 306510. Voila - you see that the road marking number (the alias) is really linked to it's real MTH model number 20-98263.

Bingo - so now you can look up the real model number - 20-98263. No more guessing what the model number is!!

6. And with the newest MI Trains "wild card" search, you can really get finite. A wild card search finds anything in the datafield that contains the "search text". For example, suppose you would like to review and maybe collect Disney items that Lionel has produced...     be it Cabooses, Catalogs, Box Cars, Engines, whatever...   Simply type the search text "Disney" in the Road Name field. MI Trains details all those in the Catalog and Your inventory. Now you can evaluate what is available, what you have, and what you would like to go after. Then click on through those you would like to get, and add them to your Wish List. How simple is that!