Card Card System ????

Kelly, Here's a link to some car card and switch lists to check out. If you scroll down you'll find a list of free car forwarding and switch list generators.

A few sites that might help:

Here's a list of references to card operation:

On the Blue Island Terminal, we use coin envelopes for the cars, and index cards that fit inside for the waybills. Car information could be entered in a spreadsheet / database program and printed out on sitcky labels affixed to the envelopes.

Another wrinkle is that the waybills do not have originating information on them, nor are they rotated or flipped. When a car reaches its destination, the waybill is removed and another semi-randomly selected waybill is inserted.

One reason this works is that the B.I.T. is a transfer railroad -- a car "leaves" the BIT, gets a new waybill, and re-enters the property with a new destination. \ Chas.

If you do the Yahoo thing, there is a Car Cards group. Very nice folks, and some nice software for making cards from a database.

All I've ever used is/are car cards, but...car cards and waybills represent the actual paperwork that accompanies each carload shipment. Switchlists are a single sheet that the train crew uses to set out and pick up cars. Corrections welcome...

Jeff Sc. Pencil, Ga.

Thank's everyone for the great links and tips!

Subscibed this afternoon!

I have been reading alot of the links provided and I think I am leaning towards a switch list type program.

It looks like a lot of work to set up, but once finished it seems as simple as generating a session, printing a switch list, and go play!