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Car Cards and Waybill system on a high rail O gauge layout

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Car Cards and Waybill system on a high rail O gauge layout
Posted by overall on Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:57 PM

I'm curious to know how many of you use a CC&WB system, or other car forwarding system,on your O gauge layout? I have been in the OPSIG for several years now and read their publication, the Dispatcher's Office. I read an article in the latest DO about a gentleman that uses a car forwarding system with his Gilbert American Flyer trains.I have been experimanting with the CC&WB system from Micro Mark and I think I am close to getting it to work on my layout.

If anyone else has done this, give me some feed back on how it went and what you learned.

George

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Posted by tcripe on Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:21 PM

George,

 I had many satisfying hours of operation when using it in my HO days. Probably because I was able to make a more industrial spurs and an interchange track. With my current O layout, size limitations have made it more difficult - I don't have room for as many industries that would ship directly to and from each other from one "side" of the layout to the other, and this is with a 20 X 8 layout. I still enjoy it as far as it goes, especially since I have incorporated assemblying various passenger trains into the mix using the card system.

- Terry 

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Posted by cnw1995 on Friday, July 27, 2007 9:36 AM
Not in this scale - but I did in N and I do follow traction operating rules (run line-of-sight, bell-signals, stop at certain crossings, etc.)

Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.

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