hop plus the rider car con- taining LCL and Railway Express Agency packages. Next up is Oakland, Ill

on the author's Louisville & Nashville LC&L subdivision because trains are running reliably and realistically

were also shipped in the baggage sec- tion as "LCL" (less-than-carload

as a passenger station and also receives some LCL shipments on the team track on the side next to the parking...Railroad for full carload shipments rather than LCL movements. The station was built from a Fine Scale Miniatures...serves passengers but it also receives some LCL shipments on the team track near the parking lot. Freight

station was primarily used for less than carload (LCL) shipments. The The Mystic Freight Station is primarily used

branch line, now independent as La Cumbre Lines (LCL). The first project was to build the truss bridge, crossing

Jungers Rice Lake Lumber To Minneapolis LCL Transfer and storage RICE LAKE Depot Crossing guard shanty

P HOTOGRAPHY TIPS AND TEC HNIQUES LCL (Less Than a Camera Bag) JUSTIN FRANZ/photos as noted IN RAILROADING...LCL" means "less-than- carload," referring to situations where there isn't enough freight to fill an en

Photography tips and techniques/Justin Franz LCL - Less Than a Camera Bag 74 High Iron -- Railroaders Tell Their

GETTING REAL | 16 16. LCL depot unloading process. Did you know there's an MRH/RE index

LCL as means to maximize small layout operations via LCL. O My goal for this article was to provide a general description...and small layout dispatching methods. 15. LCL Freight House Process - single-destination...single-destination LCL Cars. Get more arcles like this G IT LIKE SUBSCRIBE INDEX TABLE

GETTING REAL | 14 14. LCL freight house process - sorting and loading LCL. This not the only way or even necessarily the best way to have...sequence is the LCL depot unloading process [16]. Two major steps are represented...have taken place since the Single Destination LCL Cars were created in [15]. MRHMAG.COM INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS

The next step in the process is to unload selected LCL so that each car has only LCL for one destination on the Alphabet RR or on another railroad...LCL. You can see that after the unloading of selected LCL, each of those three cars has only a single destination. So...Z car. Car 321 will become the X car[14]. 13. LCL freight house process - unloading selected LCL. SUBSCRIBE INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS

different stations on the Alphabet Railroad. 11. LCL freight house process - arrival at freight house M. 12. LCL freight house process - unloading all LCL. MRHMAG.COM INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS

of Cloy, although LCL from Anna to Bess, Bess to Cloy etc. is possible. In many circumstances...on the prototype, an LCL car wasn't close to being fully loaded. The LCL freight house process is the next step. Referring back to...house at M. Three of the cars have a mix of LCL that is bound for destinations way down our "Alphabet Railroad

overview of a general process for LCL cargo in [9], with a hypothetical "Alphabet Railroad" that runs...steps with a schematic or flow diagram of LCL cargo itself, the structures that handle LCL, the cars that carry the LCL, and the journey the cars and their LCL take from initial loading to final delivery. Now let's look...in [9], starting with the initial process of the LCL journey, the LCL depot loading process [10]. Keep in mind I'm using a theoretical

Pacific (SP) in San Francisco originates the LCL listed in [8]. In row one, notice this LCL service does not reach the New York Central in Cleveland...eight days later. F LCL As the name implies, LCL is about modeling something other than carload (CL) shipments...car and its contents to 9. General process for LCL cargo. SUBSCRIBE INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS

companies were the "middle men" that gathered LCL items ranging from small packages to large crates and pallets...Once there, the freight forwarder sorted the LCL shipments by destination, organizing them into carload...freight forwarder charged the customers a higher LCL rate, paid the railroads a lower CL rate, and kept the difference

GETTING REAL | 7 The structures that housed LCL operations ranged from small depots [4] to small freight houses...allowing workers to travel between cars. 7. PRR LCL services originating in New York City in 1951. 8. Union Pacific...LCL services originating on the SP in San Francisco in 1951. SUBSCRIBE INDEX TABLE OF CONTENTS

and Baltimore & Ohio's Timesaver. But most LCL services used 40-foot boxcars without...The SP specially painted and lettered "Overnights" LCL cars. www.protocraft.com 4. A small depot - Sacramento Northern