I thought we would take a quick look at modeling fill tonnage.
First what is fill tonnage? Fill tonnage is extra cars added to a trains consist to bring it up to full tonnage.This is done for for movement of cars and to keep locomotive house power ratio to train tonnage.This why you may see empty hoppers or pig/stack cars in a general freight train or (say) a cut of covered hoppers in a coal train..
What type of cars is fill tonnage?
1.Empty covered hoppers,boxcars etc needed on another division.
2.Empty hoppers going back to the mines.
3.Empty stack/pig cars.
4.Empty or loaded foreign road cars.This will keep the old per diem charge down.
5.Loads that could not be added to a earlier train due to the consist of that train exceeding the tonnage limit if these cars was added.
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So,if our model train has more horsepower then cars according to the train make up switch list then any extra cars we have going east or west can be added to that train by simply adding the car card and waybill if its loaded or just the empty car card to the train consist packet.
First what is fill tonnage? Fill tonnage is extra cars added to a trains consist to bring it up to full tonnage.This is done for for movement of cars and to keep locomotive house power ratio to train tonnage.This why you may see empty hoppers or pig/stack cars in a general freight train or (say) a cut of covered hoppers in a coal train..
What type of cars is fill tonnage?
1.Empty covered hoppers,boxcars etc needed on another division.
2.Empty hoppers going back to the mines.
3.Empty stack/pig cars.
4.Empty or loaded foreign road cars.This will keep the old per diem charge down.
5.Loads that could not be added to a earlier train due to the consist of that train exceeding the tonnage limit if these cars was added.
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So,if our model train has more horsepower then cars according to the train make up switch list then any extra cars we have going east or west can be added to that train by simply adding the car card and waybill if its loaded or just the empty car card to the train consist packet.