It will tell you where to initially place your cars (it determines lading based on the industries there). Ship It! comes with the ability to start out mid-stream in an operating session. Included are: Switchlists (includes Conductor and Engineer instructions, along with locomotive and caboose information) Industry Status Report (lists status of all cars at industries, including lading and time information) Yard Arrival and Yard Departure Reports Train Length Report (lists number of cars on each train as it leaves each town) Car Diagnostic Report (lists locations of each car during and through multiple sessions) Loco/Caboose Location Report (aids in set-up and development of helper service) Car Starting and Ending Location Reports (aids in set-up) Empty and Load Request Reports, and print-outs for every database. Ship It! contains over 24 different print-outs. Ship It! helps you determine the number of locomotibves required by calculating the number of cars leaving each town. Develop helper service by scheduling the pick up and drop off of locomotives. You can have as many locomotives as you wish on a train. Through trains can also pick up and drop off cars if you wish. Ship It! supports local and through trains, along with the transfer of cars from one to the other through interchanges. Expand your layout beyond the confines of your basement or spare room! Both types of staging supports off-line divisions. Each train arriving in staging leaves with the same cars, except that each cars lading has changed. The correct type of load is matched to each car.

The type of load is determined by the program, which cycles through various shipping industries previously set up. When empties arrive in staging, they are converted to loads. When loads arrive in hidden staging, they are automatically converted to empties. Ship It! supports both accessible (fiddle) staging and hidden staging. Priority allows you to weight the importance of the delivery. The car will then become a load (shipper)or an empty (consignee).Īmount represents the number of cars that will be requested for a consignee.Įmpties represents the number of empties a shipper wants to have on hand for loading.įrequency is how often (in hours) the consignee wants to receive loads. See the Consignee and Shipper Browse/Edit window displayed in the main app frame image.ĭuration is the time that it will take a car to unloaded (shipper) or unloaded (consignee) after delivery. You set up the parameters, but the layout acquires a life of its own, because of the many tests each shipment must pass before it is okayed. You determine how many carloads an industry can ship by product. You control how often and how many cars are delivered to each industry by product. This information allows you to optimize your operations and eliminate bottlenecks. Empty Request and Load Request Reports detail exactly what each consignee is calling for in terms of AAR Type, product, and amount. If the car is being routed across divisions, the next destination and final destination is also given. Also given is the car arrival time (what session it arrived in and the clock time). Because Ship It! tracks all information through time, it can tell you whether a car is loading or unloading, what product is involved, how many hours until the loading/unloading is completed, or whether the car is an available load or empty.

The Industry Status Report lists each industry in turn and contains information about each car located there. Use Ship It!'s reports to gain insight into what's going on on your layout. Simulate, Then Optimize Operation On Your Layout Never create another operating session by hand! Get rid of all the paperwork except the switchlist. Car movement is never random with Ship It! Just tell Ship It! what products your industries ship and receive, and it will create car movements between them, even across divisions.

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