Shipping to others

[Lester Perry]

Railroad Line Forums has a program that's maybe somewhere between the Big Blue boxcar thingy here and what you have in mind. In that, each participant sends one car from his layout (whether private-road or just anything off his layout) around on a circuit determined by the number of people who sign up in a given year. There's no "interchange" per se, in the sense that modeler A models the DM&IR and sends ore to a steel mill on modeler B's PRR layout. Instead, a sort of freelance narrative has been imposed that I find somewhat silly.

I just looked at their exchange. It does appear that they just rotate cars around arbitrarily. I think this is going in the way of shipping commodities or merchandise from one layout to another. Not just rotating cars around. I did get a copy of their rules to look at.