Using Car Cards & Waybills in Everett

Burr Stewart demonstrates how he uses car cards and waybills to manage the movement of cars on his HO scale model railroad layout. Along the way, a certain amount of railfanning and flat switching also takes place.
The HO scale model railroad featured here is Burr's "Burrlington Northern" model railroad layout, and featured in many videos on this TH-cam channel @Burr Stewart , as well as his blog burrlingtonnor.... He did the livestream from an iPhone X with bluetooth earbuds for the audio.

[@jamescarry4733]

Burr I missed your live stream, Saturdays is my grocery and errand day, usually don by noon. Unfortunately for me my truck had other ideas. But definitely keep up the great modeling.

[@muchfunwithtrains]

Yeah, I figured people were probably doing errands on Saturday morning. I'll try not to pick that time too often, I just happened to be free so there it is...

[@gregbowen617]

Hi Burr, I love your videos and find you a great narrator, never afraid of self-criticism...I make uncoupling tools from used Micro-Mark micro brushes...usually the white one because of the ease of identification - I strip off the fuzzy end and nip it to about .5 cm - then I use a small set of pliers to squash the pointy end flat, nip it to an arrow shape and glue it to a mini dowel - works for me...on some, I have glued a micro magnet to lift out my coal loads at my power station.

[@muchfunwithtrains]

These are great ideas, thanks for sharing. I'll try them out.

[@jstockton303]

Great video giving an overview of using the cards, I need to learn more about applying them to my operations. I’m designing a new layout, free lance, how would I setup the “directions”, east, west, etc? Being new to using a car cards system would you recommend maybe starting with the kit from Micro Mart?

[@muchfunwithtrains]

Yes, the Micro-Mark kit is a great place to start. Also, browse around on OPSIG.org website and its TH-cam channel. OPSIG stands for "Operations Special Interest Group" and has a lot of great resources for model railroad operations. As far as setting directions on a freelance railroad, do whatever is intuitive to you. A lot of people prefer "east" to the right and "west" to the left, because it's the same as you're used to seeing if you read a map with "north" facing up. But it also depends on what area you're modeling, its dominant scenic features, and the constraints of your layout space. For example, on my layout the prototype railroad runs along the eastern shore of Puget Sound, so it makes more sense, generally, to have the aisle represent the water and the backdrop represent the mountains. Which means my "north" is to the left. And since trains had to go north from Seattle to Everett before turning "east", I end up with "east" being to the left as if I was looking at the map upside down. Argh. Whatever you eventually decide, you and your operators will get used to it...

[@muchfunwithtrains]

John - you may also get some more ideas from my earlier video on switching Interbay with car cards, Part 2, where I show a map of the area I'm modeling and so forth. th-cam.com/video/VAkH-x7IunU/w-d-xo.html

[@jstockton303]

@@muchfunwithtrains thanks for the information, I watched the series of your operations video and will check out the SIG.

[@zoewlazlak3231]

There is two yards in Everett is that delta of Bayside yard

[@muchfunwithtrains]

It this particular video, we start at Delta Yard, and then transfer over to Bayside Yard. So it's both!