Empty Car Waybills?

[FCIN]

Empty cars do indeed require waybills. Some roads use a full size waybill (8 1/2 x 11) while others may use a half size form (4 1/4 x 11). In simplest terms empty cars are to be sent home via reverse route or returned to the nearest junction point of the home railroad, or may be loaded closer to, back to, or via the home road. Like everything else in the industry, there are of course exceptions to the basic rules.

The information to be shown on the empty car waybill is minimal: Car Initials and Number, Kind, From Station and State, To Station and State, Shipper (Railroad Agent), Consignee (Railroad Agent), Route, Last Contents and any other special instructions that may pertain. Example:

FREIGHT WAYBILL
Car Initials: LN Number: 200090 Kind: C113
From: Frankfort, KY Shipper: Agent FCIN
To: Louisville, KY Consignee: Agent LN
Route: FCIN FRNKF LN
Contents: Empty - Last Contained Corn

As Larry pointed out, if you're using car cards, you can simply show on the car card EMPTY and the route the car must take to get back to its home rails or make empty waybills to use with the card showing the required information.

I did a Google search for "Railroad Waybills" and was a bit surprised that I couldn't find any good examples of prototype waybills. Plenty of examples where model railroaders have made their own or how they handle car cards should you care to spend a little time looking.