Update 341 includes corrections and additions.  This note lists corrections.

1.  car-orders for "re-paints".   In some cases the "re-painted" car initials were not being used (original reporting-marks were being used).

2.  car-orders for cars assigned  to an "N" pool were not working properly.  "N" pool is a National pool were only the customer name is listed and there is no specific location (siding number) listed.

3.  Related, where a car had a restriction on commodity, with a STCC, listed, and the waybill STCC and car STCC differed in number of characters (only when less than 5) the more general (shorter) STCC was not recognized.

For example, you may have waybills for "oats", or "wheat" or other grains, which would have 5 character STCC.   However any covered hopper could be suitable for any of these ladings.   To do this you would (create and) assign the car a 4-character STCC such as "0113".  Then any lading with an STCC beginning in 0113 should be loaded (car-order).   This is now happening.

4. Predictive car movements.   This is a (relatively new) option which causes ProTrak to move empty cars towards a customer, before the car is actually assigned by car-order.   On a larger railroad this may shorten the time between "ordering a car" and the time "the car actually appears at the customer" by several days (sessions).   This has the effect of reducing the number of cars in transit for a particular traffic, reduces routing of empty cars offline and reduces empties sitting in storage in yards.

Unfortunately when a car was >rejected< for "predictive loading", in some circumstances, the car would be assigned a "blank" destination sidingnumber (later corrected by the program).  This "blank siding number" issue has been corrected.

5. As requested, and note earlier, the new list of cars at yards was not displayed and this has been corrected.   Printing too.

            Jim