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There was a Posting about model railroad hump yards and a thought came to me. Every model railroad has is own Trackside industries that get cars switched in from time to time often coming from just a couple of scale miles across the layout, In the real world railroads dont take shipents for such short distances unless its a in house plant switch like a steel mill. What I am Proposing here is that when each model sends out a car or gets in a car that that car instead of going though a tunnel and sitting out off the way and PRENTENDING that is going across the country. Build a track that leads into a special box that you can put a train in and send it Via UPS (Which is the only Parcel carriar that I know off that uses rail for 75% of there shipments) which then gets put on a Real Train and then gets shipped to another model railroader who has a industry on his railroad were he could spot the car. For Intstace a model railroad car or train load of coal gets sent "Off Railroad" from a model railroad that has a mine via UPS to a another Model railroad that has a power plant. In Retern since you may have a scrap yard you get a train load of Gondolas with Model scrap. You may have a lumber yard on your layout so you send out a car load of Lumber in exchange for a boxcar for your paper mill. The idea here would be that you always have diffrent railroad cars in your layout and you have diffrent model indistrys that you could consign things to. There might even be a Model Hump Yard were railroad cars are sorted out and shipped to there prospective owners or consignees. Every week you would send out or recive a box of diffrent Model Railroad cars to be spotted on your industrys. Each Car would have its own reporting marks so that you can call up a 1-800-number to find out were it is.(Which if its on UPS is might actulay be on a real train!). Anyone here would like to add there thoughts?? This is based on the Play By mail chess games..
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