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<p>Do you operate using some form of car routing system?  Do you use fiddle staging?  Its nice to have about 2-2.5x the number of cars than spots for cars on the layout if you do relatively frequent (twice a month or more) operating sessions.  This is so you dont end up with the same cars in the same local trains going to industries along your line (you start to notice this).  So in your case 275-300 should be more than adequate.  I would go through and nit pick out any thing that doesn't fit the era or operations modeled (I wouldnt expect to find ATSF or UP coal hoppers on the BM or MEC for example).</p>
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