Exactly, The Chief Clerk controls the whole railroad. Not a wheel turns unless he/she calls for it. It is not a dispatchers job in any way, but without a...
... Yes, when it comes to large industries and their support yards, cherry picking happens on a regular basis. However, as you point out when it comes to...
If I remembner correctly, wasn't Bill Walthers's family business, before he got into model railroad manufacturing, some kind of proprietary, mechanical file...
Roger & Others I was operating on a fairly notable layout in the Harrisburg, PA area a few years ago and was assigned the Yard. The Regular Yard Operator...
Andy & Mal, I've been retired for four years. It now seems harder to find time to work on the railroad - other activities get in the way, like sailing for...
Dave I have been retired for 3 years now and am able to spend 40 hours a week working on my layout - with over 2500 sq ft of layout to build - 40 hours is NOT...
Hi Bob and All, I agree with you that none of the computer based forwarding systems are perfect but that isn't to say that they are not good. Heck, the...
I have watched this discussion over several days. I know Andy and his railroad. Both are fun. But I must take issue with his "self healing" remarks. With any...
Hi Mal, BTW you are welcome to come out a run when you retire! (G) You are correct at the core of what you say, there is some classification in that the cars...
"Yes, when it comes to large industries and their support yards, cherry picking happens on a regular basis. However, as you point out when it comes to general...
Well guess what Hank, I can't argue with that!! You win, kinda! ;-) We are talking about a car missing or being found where it shouldn't be. As far as the...
I know about the SIT yards, especially the resins inventory in Houston. So instead of never, I should have said hardly ever. But that brings up an interesting...
To me self-healing is a very simple concept. In a CC&WB system, given that the waybills are correct, anyone handling the car has the information to get the...
Hi Mal, It seems we are beginning to beat a dead horse here. We will all believe in what we believe and as in politics and religion, we aren't going to change...
... They cherry pick the yard/yards. I managed a facility with a SIT yard about 30 years ago. It has a classification yard with a SIT facility attached. We...
The last several yards that I have operated did not have that much work in the initial part of the op session. Most of the cars had been classified by the last...
Terry, To one of your points below, we have started forcing a harder line on ending op sessions at a certain time. That is, when your shift is over, it's...
Most of the time Sandric operators have had their fill of ops for the day, but some do want to leave an orderly end to the session and remain after the bell....
Terry, Detlef, I started doing the same thing start of this year. In the past, we would "finish the schedule" no matter how long it took and that included...
I have learned much from this discussion and am convinced that good design of the physical plant coupled with a well thought out and documented car forwarding...
 ... H" <cmrproducts@...> wrote:  ... times as fast and trying to read all of the destinations wrote on the car cards in pencil and ALL Smudged up and in...
Hi All, I ask this to see if it is my computer or the actual posted message. Did you get a lot of hieroglyphics looking figures that made the message hard to...
No odd characters seen here, but my Thunderbird client is set to text-only (helps in spotting phishing emails by revealing actual URLs). 73 de N5ILN/6 Alan ...
Guys, I got in on the computer thread a little late and was wondering who used Railbase and Shipit. I've been storing car data in Railbase for about a decade,...
Oops ! Sorry for that one. I wanted to do some formatting because my combination of software doesn't seem to want to do things like bold and underline when...
