AAR Types

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As a brakeman all I was concern with was the road name,car number and where it goes.

Exactly. That said, having worked in both fields on the railroad, I became very familiar with the UMLER codes and using the ORER over the years. Interesting stuff.

As for the ShipIt program. I have that and gave up trying to use it, because I could never get it to work for a short line or industrial type operation where everything comes on or off line from staging (i.e., an interchange or off line yard). Probably can be done, but I found it just too time consuming to try and get it to work the way I would expect. Just much easier to keep track of what is spotted where and when and fill out a switch list. Hopefully tetters, it will work fine for your operations.