Equipment Register
Every Railroad must have equipment to ship commodities. The Equipment Register creates the types of equipment available for use on the layout.
New Equipment
To create new equipment, click the "New" button. This takes you to the Edit Car Type screen.
Items in red are required elements when defining your equipment.
Classification - Select the equipment's classification from the drop down list. The list contains standard classification for Equipment.
Selecting a class for equipment helps to organize equipment on various screens in ModuOps.
Era - Select the era of the equipment from the Era drop down list. The options allow yard crews to select a car to best fit the era requested.
Car description (required) - The description of the equipment
Short description (required) - Add a short description of your equipment (12 characters max).
AAR Code - Indicate the AAR code for the equipment. AAR codes are required when using the switch list output option.
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For more information on AAR codes, we recommend the efforts of the Ops Sig group at https://www.opsig.org/files/resources/AARFreightCarCodes.pdf.
Length (required) - The length of the equipment you define is intended to be in scale feet. However technically the unit is arbitrary and technically can represent any unit desired. Make sure you stay consistent with the unit of measurement when defining other options requiring a length.
Remarks Remarks are optional when defining the equipment. The remarks are typically displayed on the output form when the car type is selected for use on a train. The remarks are intended for the crew handling the equipment and may contain information such as "Hazardous" or "Flammable".
When you have finished entering all the equipment information on the form, click "Done".
Edit Equipment
To change information about an existing piece of equipment, double click on the item in the scrolling list on the Equipment Register screen.
You are taken to the Edit Car Type screen. Make any changes/corrections on this screen. Click "Done" when finished.
Clone Equipment
It is common that you need to create a new piece of equipment that is very similar to another. Select the equipment in the Equipment Register screen and click "Clone". An exact copy of the equipment is made and you are taken to the Edit Car Type screen.
Make any changes needed to the equipment. The original equipment is left unchanged by this process.
After you have made all your changes, click the "Done" button.
Delete Equipment
In the Equipment Register screen, select the Equipment to be deleted form the scrolling list. Click the "Delete" button.
You are asked to confirm your desire to delete the item. THIS CAN NOT BE UNDONE. If you are sure you would like to delete the item, click "Yes".
Deleting equipment also deletes any related items including Consignee requests for the Equipment.