Today's Update 343 makes three changes:

1) the option for printing the car-stability number on the train-consist and yard Workorder has been expanded to give you three options:

     - print on both the train-consist and the yard Workorder

     - print on only the yard Workorder

     - print on neither. 

This is now a dropdown selection.

The car-handling code is printed (as before) when the car-stability number is not printed.  The purpose of showing the car stability number is  to guide a yardmaster in marshalling a train to prevent car instability issues (stringlining or buckling).   The value of the car stability number varies from about 20 up to 100.   A car showing 100 is the most stable.  A car showing 20 to 40 should be carefully marshalled, either at the end of the train or behind a helper.

(As before the program calculates the marshalling for a stable train.)  The car-stability number may be used by the yardmaster to marshall a train in another order, which also would be stable.   Flexibility for the yardmaster.   Possible reduction in train 'trimming' time/work.

2.  The yardmaster's "Trains that serve" yard printout has been (slightly) re-formatted  to display local-service zones on a second line (for a train).    Local editors prefer this format, as being 'cleaner' and easier to understand.

3.  A correction:  When displaying/re-printing a workorder and/or train-consist the order of the cars would change.   This was tracked down to cars going to a customer when there was more than one car going to that customer.   (If the train-consist was displayed those cars to that customer would be displayed in one order, and if the train-consist was displayed a second time, the cars would be displayed in the opposite order.  The order of the cars was being "toggled".   Printing the Workorder then the train-consist would show the same 'toggling'.)   This has been corrected.

This is one of the items from the October Weekend.

OK?

Happy New Year!

                Jim