Freight car routing

[nkalanaga]

That's basically what I thought.  "Loose car railroading" has largely gone to trucks and containers.

[John]

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The reason I want to split them:
If I'm picking a car up, I want to know where it goes (Customer) but I don't need to know the track.
If I'm setting a car out I'd probably want to see both.. so no issues there.
If I'm switching a car inside a customer, I don't need to see the customer name in the From Track and To Track fields.
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I haven't had a chance to watch your videos yet, so I may be bringing coal to newcastle

In JMRI, for spotting a specific location on a spur, they recommend using custom loads, such as paper rolls at the paper mill .. etc .. and also schedules .. all in all, its still a pretty good program ..

[Missaberoad]

That's basically what I thought.  "Loose car railroading" has largely gone to trucks and containers.

Exactly, and the last ideas of a shared national freight car pool died with the Staggers Act.

Even (some? Most?) cars in the TTX pool are assigned to specific member roads or customer pools.

[Tad_T]

…the last ideas of a shared national freight car pool died with the Staggers Act.

One of the three reasons that I decided to model operations as of October 1979.