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I've got 4 trains to run and I want to build the trains and print the switchlists for the engineers before the operating session starts. In doing so I noticed that one boxcar was a pickup and move by the first train thru that yard, but a second train had the same box car to be moved also. Am I doing this correctly or is there some way to avoid this occurring pls?

Peter.

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Once a car is assigned to a built train, the car can't be used by another.? You should only build, then print out your four trains.? Only terminate them when they actually finish their runs.

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Dan

G'day Dan - thanks for your response. In my case I've got 2 trains leaving from staging A and both going thru the same town B but at different times.

My Build action shows that each of them is being called to pick up the same 2 cars in town B on their journey. I've checked my settings and car options for each train and all seems OK.

In town B there are a variety of other car options to pick up, so not sure why these 2 trains want to pick up the same 2 cars!?

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Peter,

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Maybe you've entered the same car twice, or you've used the hyphen feature to enter two identical cars into the database.? Can you please go to the Cars window after you've build both of your trains.? Use the sort by "Train" radio button on the bottom, and then search for car road numbers using the find box at the bottom of the window.? Let us know how many cars you find, and to which train's the cars are assigned to.

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Hi Dan - thanks for info. Not sure what I did but when I built the 2 trains again the car pick ups are not duplicated! So, all good so far. I only have about 40 cars on my point-to-point layout and short spurs and yard tracks. As a result I'm trying to use PanelPro to allocate cars to various sidings and industries so that I can best balance the distribution of cars across an operating session.

I had previously tried the system of waybills that Paul Scoles had written about years ago but could never quite get it right. I now like the switchlists that PanelPro produces and are trying to train my operators in using them.?

Thanks for your assistance.

Cheers,

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