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How do you handle empty car orders to get an empty car to a shipper and empty car dispositions, to remove a car once its unloaded?

Hi Dave, It will be a bill

Hi Dave,

It will be a bill but an empty bill (I'll decide who gets what before I operate, most sessions will probably be just me).   All jobs will be prestaged and ready to go, the only yard switching will be on the return when you have to break your train down for SP, UP or ATSF interchange.

When pulling an empty from a customer, besides looking for the empty car bills, one idea I have is to have a switch list in the box that tells the crew which car(s) to pull and respot.  Similar to this; the Hills Pet (food) plant is one of industries on the layout.

Reuse

Looks interesting, but you're printing a lot of new paperwork every session.

The classic car card & waybill system came about when someone realized they could take the information on the waybill, simply separate the car and shipment info and make all the paper work reusable.

Is each waybill a full size 8x11" sheet of paper?

I'm actually creating all the

I'm actually creating all the paperwork upfront, nothing new gets created for a session other than perhaps some quick switch lists.   Some cars will be in a pool, and have the same bill each time though you most likely won't see the same car number every session.  But yes, the goal is to have a large stack of single-use bills for various scenarios.

Each bill is about 3.75" x 4.75" printed on gray cardstock.

It's all a work in progress, as I have yet to do a session to see how well (or not) this thing operates

CC&WB

Several modelers use a clear plastic sleeve like those used for baseball cards and print the car number on clear labels then stick the car number to the front of the sleeve in the appropriate position.  Then when you slip the waybill in the sleeve the car number is in the "right" place and it allows the waybills to be re-used for different cards.

A friend of mine does a variation of this and then the "yardmaster" handles the waybills and writes up switch lists which are give to the crews, the crews never see the waybills.

Car orders and empty returns are handled in a similar way.