My Take On Operations "Game"

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Good stuff Ralph....feel free to jump in anytime! I think for me, I'm going to make 3 or 4 cards for each industry, each card with a different move. So for example......White Furniture will be a complex that makes furniture. They receive lumber and ship finished furniture. So they would have a card to receive up to 2 flatcars of lumber at at time from the sawmill located elsewhere on my layout. They would have a card to receive 1 boxcar of ordered hardware or misc stuff. They would have a card for sending empty flatcar(s) to interchange and another one for empty flatcar(s) back to sawmill. And one more card for sending boxcar(s) to interchange with finished furniture. The sawmill would have similar cards to and from interchange and to/from White's Furniture. Similar cards for the other 2 or 3 industries on the layout. I'm basing the number of cars for each industry on the size of the siding and loading/unloading space. So I think we're thinking basically the same thing. I too didn't want to complicate things with rolls of the dice in addition to the cards. You might consider creating "Chance" cards to throw in a little fun with prototypical problems like Steve suggests in his thread http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic...=54&t=2909.
Also, I have been looking for the right kind of cardstock for when I iron all the kinks out and make it permanent. You can buy Avery index cards for printers that are laminated on one side and are thick - makes for easy shuffling might save you the trouble of gluing paper to cardstock.

Sal Monella - too funny