| Car Cards & Waybills - |
- I have a question about the correct way to handle off-spot
cars. When I arrive in town, is it safe for me to assume that the Trainmaster has come
through town during the previous session and turned the cards (waybills) of any cars that
need to be moved from the assigned locations so that I know if I can move an off-spot car
to its destination?
- Or am I to assume that it is now time for me to flip the
waybills and make room at the destination for current off-spot cars myself?
- Or is it handled in a different ways on different layouts?
Dave Hunt
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| How some of the local Operational Layout Owners answered Daves
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- "On my railroad, The AT&SF's New Mexico Division,
operators don't turn the waybills. This is something I do during staging to balance
the trafic flow, etc. So, when you arrive in town you can assume that all waybills have
been flipped. If you are running eastbound you can pick-up all cars with cards in the
"Pick-up Eastbound"
box. If there is a card in the "Off Spot" box you know you need to spot it giving it priority over any
set-outs in your train for that siding. Finally, cards already in the "Set-Out - Hold" box indicate that these cars have not been unloaded yet and should
be left in place. You should place the cards for any cars you spotted in the "Set Out-Hold" box when you are through switching." Bob Foltz
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- Ditto with me on the "Gladstone & North
Houton." Crews never turn waybills with one exception, the milk cars spotted in
Gladstone. Crews have enough to worry about without flipping waybills. Fred Carlson
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- "On The Montrose Division of the Denver and Rio
Grande Western, Stock train waybills in the car cards are flipped by the crews after a car
is either loaded or unloaded. The Olathe Yardmaster flips the waybills on the baggage
and refrigerator cars left in Olathe from the Mountaineer train. The Staging
Yardmaster flips the waybills of the Montrose Stock and the Mountaineer trains. I am
going to change the way the narrow gauge stock train is handled in Olathe. The road
crew will switch their stock train and then depart. The narrow gauge stock train
is spending way too much time in Olathe and never gets sent back up the hill to Empire.
The crew of this train will flip the waybills in the car cards. My car card pockets are
labeled SPOTTED, LOADING/UNLOADING and PULL. The wording is different but the car
cards are handled the same way. SPOTTED is for a car card set out at an industry,
LOADING/UNLOADING is just that i.e. the car is either being loaded or unloaded and needs
to remain, and PULL is where the car's car card is located to be picked up."
Greg Long
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