Operating a layout question

[Lester Perry]

I don't know if my system will work for you. I call it mine but I may have seen it some where and don't remember. Each car has a card with a series of destinations on it.Here is a card with a train order sheet that is just beginning to be made up.



If you look at the top you will see it is going to the furniture plant. The train order says to drop that car at the furniture plant. A dispatcher makes up the train orders from the car cards.Here is the dispatchers board. It has a clip for every destination.



If you look back at the card you will see a list of places on the side where it will go to next. Next destination is Baltimore, that is off the layout. Then Clifton Forge which is a yard on the layout. then J&M is a short line and it continues. The Engineer never sees the cards only the train orders.
That is the basics of my system it works very well and is very easy once it is up and running. This car will move 10 times before it returns to the furniture plant. I hope this helps Let me know if you wan't more details