Now boarding — early access
RailShelf is the modern home for your model railroad collection. Snap a photo — we identify the piece, log the details, and track what it's worth.
Join the waitlistFree while in early access · HO, N, O, G & more
How it works
No spreadsheet columns to invent, no database to learn. The camera does the tedious part.
Shoot the car, the shell, or the box end — from your phone, tablet, or desktop.
AI suggests the manufacturer, road name, product number, and scale. You confirm or correct — it learns your collection.
Market values from real sold listings, tracked over time. Condition and original box factored in.
The full consist
Point, shoot, confirm. Bulk-friendly for the forty-boxes-in-the-basement situation.
Estimated values grounded in sold prices, not wishful listings. Watch your collection's worth over time.
One-click PDF: itemized, photographed, valued. For the adjuster, the appraiser, or the family.
Forty years in Excel? Bring it over in one CSV upload — nothing retyped.
Native apps that sync. Check your roster from the swap meet before you buy a duplicate.
Decoder settings, CV notes, service history — the working side of the roster, not just the shelf side.
Inherited a collection?
Every week, someone posts the same question to a train forum: "I inherited my dad's trains — where do I even start?" RailShelf is the answer: photograph everything, get it identified and valued, and decide what to keep, sell, or pass on — with a documented record either way.
RailShelf started the week I brought home the first box of my late dad's HO collection. Decades of locomotives and rolling stock, carefully collected — and no list, no values, no idea where to begin. The tools I found felt older than the trains. So I'm building the one I needed. — Joe, founder (and a collector's kid)
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Join the waitlist and be first on the platform when early access opens.
Founding members lock in a lifetime discount when we launch.