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In 2026, I created a new administrative position of Clerk. This position is ideal for someone who does not wish to operate, but wants to attend an op session and be engaged. It requires standing and walking, but one can sit a considerable portion of the time. The Clerk primarily performs \u201cnon-railroad\u201d tasks such as paperwork, handling Waybills, removing blue flags, re-staging and re-positioning the boat, serving as the Tower Operator, operating the turntable, and other duties as assigned (bet you corporate types recognize that phrase). You know, things that an owner usually does. This position will require at least an hour of training and I do not anticipate that it will fill at each op session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waybill Filing System<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since I have switched to prototypical type Waybills, the problem arises as to how to store and retrieve them easily.\u00a0 A friend, Mike Porter, taught me the prototypical filing method which I have modified a for the model world. They are held in a small home-built box and the initial category is that of car type: boxcar, gondola, hopper, etc.\u00a0 Within each car type, they are stacked based upon the last digit of their road number 0 thru 9.\u00a0 Then the reporting marks alphabetically, followed by the actual road number in ascending order and lastly as to their destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Car Type \u279e Last digit of road number (0-9) \u279e Road \u279e Number \u279e BDSLE (B<\/strong>oat\/D<\/strong>erbyJct\/S<\/strong>LSF\/L<\/strong>ocal\/E<\/strong>mpty)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When staging, I pull the proper Waybill from the filing cabinet and place it in the appropriate bill box location.\u00a0 A cart is used to store cars awaiting staging, particularly for the boat which requires 6-12 cars at a time.\u00a0 I typically pre-select these Waybills and place them with their respective cars to speed up staging during a session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Check Report is prepared for each arriving Boat load of cars – this, along with Waybills,\u00a0 is passed to the Yardmaster when the Incline crew delivers inbound cars to Middle Yard.\u00a0 The Yardmaster can quickly tell how many cars are arriving, their type and their destinations.\u00a0 He may not even need to use the Waybills in classifying and sorting the cars into trains. Completed fields are Car Initial & Number, whether a load or empty, Kind, Destination and Train; the remainder can be blank. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is a Check Report filled out for the 3rd inbound boat of the day.\u00a0 Note the shortcut for road numbers:\u00a0 the layout has few enough cars that road numbers can be completed using only the last 3 digits.\u00a0 The report shows there are 5 MTY covered hoppers, a loaded hopper and a loaded boxcar, all bound for Peerless Lime via the Mosher Switcher (MS).\u00a0 The loaded Northern Pacific boxcar will be sent to Ste. Genevieve (SG) via the Yard Job (YJ), while the loaded CP flat car travels on \u2116 93 to the MoPac interchange at Derby Jct (DJ-MP).\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Train Identifiers & Destinations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n