so the number of boxes for each town varies depending on the number of industry tracks.
Car Card Boxes
Easy to make and changeable labels ... – by Charlie Comstock
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I had a bit of .060” sheet styrene on hand so I scratchbuilt my car card boxes. They turned out to be relatively easy to make and looked great. I added a slot on them to let me slide a label strip in and out for easy changes should that become necessary.
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like to operate my model railroad. I model car movements using 4-cycle car cards and waybills. For a long time I thought the movements created by them wouldn’t feel realistic. Finally I gave them a try. Once they were set up, they worked great at directing cars to industries. I won’t go into the details of setting them up – that’s more than a one evening project!
I use a ‘traditional’ type of car card that includes a pocket to hold a waybill. The waybills have four destinations, two on each side. The one that’s visible gives the next destination for that car. But what to do with the car cards for the cars spotted at an industry? The answer is to set up boxes (some call them pockets) to hold the cards. I use a box for each industry or group of industries
The first thing to do is decide how many slots are needed for each car card box. I needed three slots in the box I made for Oakhill (there are three industries there). My car cards are 2” x 4” so I made each slot 2 1/4” wide to make it easy to drop in car cards. The pockets for the cards are 2 1/4” tall – enough to hold the cards but low enough so the waybill’s destination is visible.
Top view 7.490"
2.250"
2.250"
2.250"
1" .100" x .030"
6.990"
.250" x .030"
1"
3.560" 2.250"
Pocket label slides in slot
1.250"
All pieces .060" thick styrene unless otherwise noted. Card pockets sized for 2" x 4" car cards.
0.940" .125" x .125" bottom brace
Front view
Side view
Figure 2
Figure 1 Page 40 • Issue 11-05 • May 2011 • The Operators - Car Card Boxes, page 1
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