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Resource found on the internet This Federal study has more tables in in than the cafeteria at the Pentagon Freelance You can mix customers You can put a Coal mine next to a Manufacturing plant, next to a Meat Packer, next to a Grain

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Resource found on the internet

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This Federal study has more tables in in than the cafeteria at the Pentagon

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Freelance

  • You can mix customers

You can put a Coal mine next to a Manufacturing plant, next to a Meat Packer, next to a Grain Elevator

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Freight Traffic Analyses

What commodiEes come in to your industry? Type of car(s) used Frequency of delivery EmpEes for loading

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Freight Traffic Analyses

What commodiEes come in to your industry? Type of car(s) used Frequency of delivery EmpEes for loading What commodiEes do you ship? Types of car(s) needed Frequency of shipments Return empty delivery cars

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Freight Traffic Analysis

Some cars can be used for mulEple commodiEes

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How many cars ?

Add the capacity of all your sidings and yards MulEply by 60 – 70 % If you are just starEng operaEons use 40 – 50 %

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Time Frame

  • Both your rolling stock and your industries

should be appropriate for your Eme frame. A rusEc gold or silver mine looks good But not next to an automobile assembly plant

Perhaps the Gold mine looks beXer next to the BMW Dealer

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What are your OperaEons interests

  • Local industries need appropriate cars
  • Through trains can have almost any cars

Rolling stock should be appropriate for your Eme frame if the Eme frame is part of the

  • peraEons.
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What does a Freight Car See ?

  • A Load to pick up
  • A des7na7on and route
  • A delivery to make
  • A route home

Railbox and Trailer Train were formed to take out the

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What does an Industry see?

  • Loads coming in **
  • Need for empEes to ship product out **

** Seldom the same cars

  • Return empEes
  • Products being shipped
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A Key to OperaEons

Interchange OriginaEng or delivery Bridge Traffic Unless you are modeling the enEre Santa Fe

  • r the Pennsy few cars will both originate and be

delivered on the same layout.

Comment on FRL use of coal transfer. Interchange you haul – Bridge traffic uses their own power with one of your engineers aboard as the pilot

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Freight Traffic Analyses

What about bridge traffic ?

And yes, This was CSX

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Industries serving the Railroad

  • Car shops repairing or cleaning cars
  • Scrap dealers dismantling your first kits.
  • Tank Car Washing
  • Icing faciliEes
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Resources

  • The Internet The Mother of all resources
  • Railroad Historical Societies
  • Magazines
  • And the most important of all:

Fellow modelers

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Credits

  • Books:

How to Operate Your Model Railroad

By Bruce Chubb Opera7ons Handbook for Model Railroaders By Paul Mallery The HO Model Railroading Handbook By Robert Schleicher A compendium of model railroad opera7ons OpSig

Prototype of a pig train

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Credits

  • Tony Thompson
  • Jim Kubajak Fall River Line
  • Tom Grant Cairo & St. Louis
  • Will County Model Railroad Associa7on
  • Rik Kempf
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Tailoring your Freight Car fleet for OperaEons

Al Kempf, Jr. alkempf1901@aol.com

And that folks brings us to the end.