The goods
Here the enterprise learning comes into the game. Anyone who builds a station / place of business which are not only person operation, not only has to do some thinking about building this, but also intensive ideas on trackoperation on the tracks. This applies to both larger and smaller stations sidings.
- What are the outer boundaries / catchment areas adjacent to the module edge?
- Is there a larger town with many residents and employers?
- Which companies have established themselves here since the opening of the railway - or even before?
- Are there special underground treasures that certain products manufactured by?
- Or is it mainly agricultural, with the typical cargo thereof, which characterizes the area?
- There are companies which, with the size of their cargo, the need for its own rail link?
Companies who do not have their own rail link, offload their goods in a public platform track at station.
Have these questions answered satisfactorily, the selection of a specific business begins. You may want to look in your hometown, neighboring city, in city archives, library, old telephone books and many other sources.
This search is more interesting than it suggests. The incomplete establishment wins more profile and provides more credibility in revenue to model reality. What happens to the gathered information? There will be short listed per rail client based on the companies that was elected earliere, with incoming and outgoing products. The next point is to imagine the amount of transportation products, and thus the volume of transport per wagon. Will fullwagon loads be used (full truckload), or can the load can be sent along with other cargo as general cargo (grid boxes, pallets, barrels, boxes, etc.).
For these carloads, a list that expands to the occupied waggonlitra and the expected rate of production volume (see Table 2) must be made. The list also presents the expected amount of empty wagons for shipment of products from station / place of business.
At this point the question arises from where the freight wagons for our order has to come. On most engagements include many other players wagons, which have no operational bases. However, it is an advantage to have the necessary wagons in ones own luggage.
The shipping list identifies the number of truckloads per week. These numbers must be inserted in the Station data sheet, see this described by Martin Meiburg. Shipping List is the basis for the establishment of shipping labels, also the quantity of vehicles to be used by a typical FREMO hits over 5-10 working days can be inferred. Further you need to make a number of shipping labels for empty wagons for use by station / place of business.
Before each meeting theres is usually made a spreadsheet called "yellow pages"; this shows what can be transmitted from each station / establishment. Before each running session the stations-/operating manager walks arund the layout and deliver freight briefly at the station / company locations, he wants to receive goods from.
