Eric thanks for the great questions.
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1. I have a 10 drawer storage cart that serves as my offsite yard. Normally I would have JMRI tell me what cars to pull from what drawers. I would hand deliver them to one of 2 interchange tracks and from there is where the local would pick up its consist or drop off whatever it picked up along the route. I would then hand deliver those cars back to the designated storage drawer.
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2. Yes a car that has been emptied of corn and sitting on a storage track could be sent to track 1 for DDG loading. But that would only be done by the ADM switcher.
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3. Only tank cars are assigned to track 7. Track 7 is long enough that if needed I could store 2 or 3 extra tank cars.
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One more thing I should have mentioned. When an empty car is picked up by the local and delivered to the interchange and then to the storage drawers, it should automatically become a load for the next time its selected.. I'm not sure how to tell JMRI to do that. EXCEPT the tank cars. Those will always be picked up from ADM as loads and then automatically changed to empties once back in storage.
John Buckley