@[email protected] wrote:

That’s some great information. Amazing that it’s been around so long.

So, if you don’t mind, indulge me in a little scenario: a customer releases a car in zone 3, and the 64 job works zone 3, would the car automatically be assigned to the next day’s work on the 64 job? Was car routing to its destination also automated once the 64 job brought the car to the yard?

Ryan
Customers were given a cutoff times for the train serving their plant. So if the cutoff was 1:00 pm and the crew went on duty at 3:00 pm if the car was way billed or released empty by 12:59 pm the car would be on their work order scheduled to be pulled by the 3:00 job. If the customer released the car after the cutoff it would be scheduled to the next day’s job, Terminals were measured on a report ‘Right Day Right Train’ so management could tell if customers were being served timely. If a crew couldn’t get to a car they would report the car ‘not done’ with a whole list of coded reason codes (gate locked, ran out of time, etc). When this happened the car would roll to the next day.