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
you really don’t unload the rolling stock…take loads or empties out of the equation on your waybill unless you really have devices that can load or unload rolling stock…(like a real scale model of an operating coal mine that can fill and unload coal, or a magnet crane that will remove pipe from a flatcar, ect…) what I do is just have a piece of rolling stock that goes to a certain destination and is picked up and goes to track # (whatever) when it returns to the yard…I make out about 4 waybills for each piece of rolling stock on index cards so that it doesn’t go to the same destination or return to the same yard track everytime…when i make a train, i’ll pull about 25 cards from an "in the yard " pile and make the train from the pile of waybill cards…once the train is made, i’ll make the deliveries and put the cards in an “out of the yard pile” and when it’s time to pick up the rolling stock, i’ll pull the cards and send out my locomotives to make the train on the road and return them all to the yard and then switch them to their designated yard tracks from the cards…Chuck