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CAR CARD GENERATOR

This and the following pages will help you create a complete system for Car Card & Waybill Operation on your layout.

Waybills and Instructions for Car Card & Waybill Operation will be found on the pages following this one.

The Advanced Car Card Generator is now online!

No more manual data input with our Advanced Car Card Generator.

To learn more about it and the rest of our new My Railroad Tools and Utilities, flip the switch at right...

To begin, this page will generate three different Car Cards each complete with a photo for quick visual identification. Example copy has been pre-filled for Car Card No. 1. Click the GENERATE button to see the example. What is a Car Card?

CAR CARD No. 1
IMAGE LOCATION	Enter none.jpg (only) if no picture desired.
ROAD NAME
ROAD NO.
AAR TYPE
NOTES
RETURN MTY TO:
CAR CARD No. 2
IMAGE LOCATION	Enter none.jpg (only) if no picture desired.
ROAD NAME
ROAD NO.
AAR TYPE
NOTES
RETURN MTY TO:
CAR CARD No. 3
IMAGE LOCATION	Enter none.jpg (only) if no picture desired.
ROAD NAME
ROAD NO.
AAR TYPE
NOTES
RETURN MTY TO:

INSTRUCTIONS

For each piece of rolling stock, enter the relevant data in the form at left.

You may complete Car Cards for up to three cars at a time.

IMAGE LOCATION: The URL of any location on the web where you have stored an image of your rolling stock. Recommended width is 255 pixels. Larger images may be used but risk distortion through resizing. If no picture is desired, enter none.jpg only.

ROAD NAME: e.g. Canadian National

ROAD NUMBER: e.g. CN 594368

AAR TYPE: Optional. The American Association of Railroads Freight Car Classification. Click here for a pop-up list.

NOTES: Any relevant notes you wish to include. Example: Newsprint Service Only

RETURN MTY TO: The location on your layout (or off layout in the case of hidden staging) to which empty (MTY) cars should be returned.

When all the form fieldss that you care to fill out are complete, click the GENERATE button.

More instructions follow on the next page...

WHAT IS A CAR CARD, ANYWAY?

Car Cards – and their sisters, Waybills – are part of a simple system designed to enable prototype-like operations on a model railroad. Each freight car on a model railroad is assigned its own Car Card which travels everywhere on the layout that the associated freight car does. The Car Card is folded and secured to form a pocket which carries a Waybill. A Waybill is, in essence, a work order and it describes the freight carried by the car as well as its origin and destination. Each Waybill has four "positions" which are rotated through as the car delivers or picks up loads of freight – thus enabling realistic car movements. Complete Instructions for Car Card & Waybill Operation as well as Waybills are available on the following pages.

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