Operations on the New England Berkshire & Western Railroad
John NehrichDescription
Railroads are a means for transporting items from one location to another. Just like the real railroad, operating sessions are designed to give meaning to model railroads. The information found on waybills and car cards gives meaning and reason to the model trains. They provide information about what the train is shipping, where it’s going and where it came from.
Operations on the New England Berkshire & Western Railroad
In part nine of the 10-part New England Berkshire & Western series, Allen Keller and Rensselaer Model Railroad Society member Lee Rosenberg discuss the operating scheme of the NEB&W layout. Allen asks Lee about the use of waybills and car cards during the operating sessions. Lee describes what they are used for and how they are used on the layout.
Lee describes some of the procedures used for setting up the operating session. He discusses tip codes and what they signify. He also demonstrates the use of a waybill and what to do when you find one sitting on the layout.
The New England Berkshire & Western series is almost over, as just one more segment remains. The final segment pertains to structures and design on the New England Berkshire & Western model railroad layout and offers a step by step tutorial on how to detail windows on structure kits.
How do you use the waybills and car cards, or do you use those kinds of things? Yes, the waybills and the car cards are works that when you go around, you have a car card that tells you what you are shipping, what kind of car you're using, and where it's headed to and where it's headed from. And then you match, we used to match them to specific cars all the time. Now we tend to look for a boxcar of a certain type as opposed to a specific car, and then we match the two together and it tells you, it tells the operator where to take the car on his train. So when setting up for our operating sessions, we set up using the TIBS code, for which we got from the Batavia club. TIBS code tells you exactly where to lay out the cars on the layout according to the numbers. We used to actually match the waybills to the cars. However, we found that was really hard to keep track of, so we now just use the waybills and attach it to the nearest car that matches the car classification, such as XM, which is boxcar. We're coming along here, this tells you which train you are, and what you do. If I wanted these trains, I would just go through and do nothing. However, since we're with AB-12, we would come in and set out any of these cars we have and we pick up any of these cars we've marked with these TIBS codes, such as the New York Central Interchange. As we come into South Hero, I notice that there's a waybill sitting on the train, sitting on the tracks by one of the boxcars. Since the TIBS code is New York Central and we're AB-12, according to the blocking chart, we should pick this car up and bring it along with us on our train.
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