Rolling stock

Track coaches, cabooses, and freight equipment alongside the locomotive fleet, with their own record pages, runs, and photos.

Rolling Stock holds the cars and non-powered equipment your railroad owns — coaches, cabooses, flats, boxcars, gondolas, tank cars, and open-air cars. It sits under Operations in the sidebar.

The list

The list shows Reporting mark, Type, Description, Capacity, Weight (t), and Status. Click a row to open the car, or click + Add Car to create one.

Each row starts with a small picture of the car: its cover photo if it has one, and otherwise a drawing of its type, so a caboose looks like a caboose and a tank car like a tank car.

Adding a car

The form is short:

• Reporting mark — the car's mark and number.
• Car type — coach, caboose, flat, box, gondola, tank, open, or other.
• Description — what it is in plain words, for example "Heritage open-window coach".
• Capacity — seats.
• Weight — the car's light weight in short tons. Fill it in: it is what the app uses to work out the trailing tonnage of every run the car is in. See Excursions.
• Status — active or inactive. Only active cars can be added to a run's consist, so a car out of service drops off the pickers without being deleted.
• Notes — anything else worth recording.

Click Create car to save.

The car's record page

A car's page is laid out like a locomotive's: the reporting mark, type, and status across the top with Edit and Delete, tabs for the record, and a panel on the right. Its Procedures tab lists the pages of every shop procedures book that is for the car.

Overview — the car's details (reporting mark, type, description, capacity, weight, status, notes), with maintenance cost to date and the car-miles it has run.

Maintenance — every work order aimed at this car, with priority, status, and cost, and + New work order to raise another; then Parts used on the car. Maintenance cost to date is paid labor plus parts across all of the car's work orders, the same rule as a locomotive's.

Runs — every excursion the car was part of, with the date, kind, status, trips, and miles. Car-miles are counted the same way as a locomotive's miles: miles per trip multiplied by trips, and only for runs that actually ran. A cancelled run, or a planned run dated in the future, is listed but marked not counted.

Photos — the same gallery as a locomotive: upload JPEG, PNG, or GIF photos several at a time, sort by when they were added or when they were taken, and choose the cover. See Photos and public restoration pages.

History — the permanent audit ledger of changes to the record.

The panel on the right shows the cover photo (or, until there is one, a drawing of the car's type with an Add a photo link), a status note — out of service, open work orders, or in service since its last run — the key figures (type, capacity, weight, runs, car-miles, maintenance cost), and quick actions for New work order, Add photos, and Runs.

Where rolling stock is used

Two places elsewhere in the app refer to these records:

• Excursion consists. When you build a train for a run you assign locomotives and cars to it, so the consist for any given day is part of the record, and each car's weight feeds the run's tonnage. See Excursions.
• Work orders. A work order can be aimed at a locomotive, at a car, or at neither for general shop work. See Work orders.