Purpose | Screen Images | Data Description | Function Descriptions | How to Use
The next hour after the seller's shipment 'paperwork' arrives at the railroad back office, each car needed for the shipment is assigned to the shipment. A route is then created from getting the empties needed by the shipper, if any, to the shipper to picking up the cars and bringing them back to the yard serving the seller and so forth until the consignees has emptied the loads and they are returned where they belong. Many trains may be involved with any shipper/consignee transaction. Empty management can involve multiple moves initially and when the consignee is done with the cars.
The next figure is a sample of the route legs associated with shipment number 900000068. legs 1 up to 98 define the sequence to route legs for the full car(s) in the Shipment from the Shipper's dock to the Consignee's dock. For each car and each route leg, a waybill is created. The start and destination for each route leg must be reachable on a single train (or intermodal move).
Leg 0 is created by MRRM to move the Empty car(s) to the Shipper's loading dock either from the Yard serving the Shipper or from other trackage owned by the Shipper.
Leg 99 is created by MRRM to move the Empty car(s) from the Consignees stop to the Yard serving the Consignee.
Route Leg Data:
Leg # - is the sequence of moves needed to route the cars from Shipper to Consignee
Goods Status - is not currently used
Vessel Status - is set to 'Done' when the leg is completed; it is not used otherwise at this time
Start ID - The stop where the car(s) is to be picked up
Destination ID - The stop where the car(s) is to be set out.
Mode - Rail, Truck, Air, or Sea
BOL/Waybill # - The waybill # of the first car on this route of the shipment.
Route legs can be manually created for special cases, if desired
The route legs are the waybill specifications for the cars used. They are automatically created with the shipment and their status are updated as trains are run with assigned waybills.
