Interest In Tour Car or Car Exchange?

[jwb]

This is the kind of thing I keep running into as well -- the waybill is by no means the only paperwork involved in moving a car, although the self-designated operations experts seem to focus on it. I've found, for instance, that the Santa Fe used the small tackboards on car sides (not the large ones, which are for DO NOT HUMP signs and so forth) for a numbered code that indicated the zone of a car's destination, the zone being something the railroad worked out for itself. The PRR, according to a book I have, divided its Chicago switching area into numbered zones, too. On top of that, the Santa Fe then numbered its switch jobs with reference to the numbers of the zones. It looks like the PC movement card is similar to that -- if you have additional info, maybe there should be a separate thread on this, Ralph.

Did the PC card go on the car's destination board?