what do we see compared to what really happens

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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Hello, i am currently, thinking about getting into some of the detailed paperwork such as waybills, frieight lists, and ive never had any running, or operating sessions yet, but my biggest question, is if you have a way bill set to send a loaded gondola to a scrap yard, then schedule a local empty frieght run to pick it up from the scrap yard, which suppositivley unloaded all of the scrap that day or night, the cars dont really empty or unload, and i know that model railroading is basically one particular day repeated over and over several times, but to an extent, so heres my question, what do you do when you run a running session and suppositivley have a car being emptyed out, or cleaned out when theres always a permanent load being shown or in the car, box cars are easy because you can simply say yeah its loaded or no it has electronics in it.

okay, hope to hear from pplz soon,

Tim

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one way is not to permanently load a car. make them removable. second is if you are setting up an operating session with other modelers, pose an empty car ahead of the session and have a loaded car dropped off during the session or vice versa. running your trains ahead of the session and put the cars where you want them to be should be a lot of fun for you.

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Another favorite solution to this problem is an “empties-in/loads-out” pair of industries. Coal mines and power plants are common. Their spurs are connected through the backdrop or an intervening ridge line. Empties spotted at the mine for loading appear at the power plant as having been unloaded. Loaded hoppers spotted at the power plant appear as outbound loads at the coal mine.