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<p>Picking the region you are in wherever you are and tracking down the raw materials needed by each industry.</p><p>Some cars will go back and forth constantly to the same place for more loads.</p><p>Other cars might come in from the opposite coast of the USA or even out of Canada for the needed raw material. When empty, they go back to the yard for re-direction to a shipper that is loading BACK to that car's home rails or nearly so.</p><p>Coal Mine.</p><p>Power plant.</p><p>Step one. Coal car is empty. That waybill should show it consigned to the coal mine.</p><p>Step two. Upon arrival at the coal mine, it takes one ops session to "Load"</p><p>Step three. The new ops session will show that coal load going to the power plant.</p><p>Step four it should arrive at the power plant and be unloaded. Ready for the next ops session back at step one.</p><p>The problem is researching an area of the USA to find a suitable shipper/reciever and or invent your own.</p><p>I use micromark's card system with the 3 slot boxes marked Spot (Set out), Hold and Pick up. That way the coal car will arrive on one ops session and be set out on the power plant siding. That waybill is moved to the HOLD slot so that tomorrow's crew will leave that car alone while it is being unloaded. At the end of THAT session the waybill is moved to the pickup slot telling the NEXT OPS session crew that the coal car is empty and ready for pickup.</p><p>Confused yet?</p><p>In the meantime there are additional coal cars floating about the system with thier own cycles feeding the hungry powerplant.</p>
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