MTY car requests
I operated in Tulsa last weekend. One layout had a quite complicated MTY car request procedure. MTY cars came back to the yard with bills the read either MTY to home road or hold for evaluation. The MTY to home road seems self explanatory, but the hold was to evaluate whether the car was suitable for re-loading or should it be rejected. The layout owner had the cars graded A-F, and the letter grade was on the car card. A-C are for boxcars, D is for reefers, E and F are for gondolas and flatcars respectively. The MTY car requests specified the car type, size and grade. Types of cars for confiscation were boxcars, gondolas, and flatcars. The sizes seemed self explanatory, but there were multiple different sizes of boxcars, 36’ through 50’, as well as inside lengths, heights, door sizes etc, Gondolas were inside length and capacity, and flats were length and capacity. So all this was taken into consideration when filling MTY car requests. There was one more thing, car service rules. ...