Train Standing Order

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Harry, 



Thank you very much! 



Jim 


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I am interested in knowing the standing order of trains as set forth on switchlists in the mid-1950's on the N&W.  Did the switchlist give the standing order of cars in the train from the caboose to the locomotive, or, from the locomotive to caboose? 

Jim Brewer 
Glenwood MD 
Jim, 
I'm sure every railroad had its own vernacular.  Usually the document given to the conductor 
showing car initial & number, destination, etc. was referred to as the consist.  A switch list 
was the document given to the yard crew that the yardmaster had designated which track 
the car (s) should be guided to.  On the N&W, the consists were arranged from engine 
to caboose in standing order.  The waybills were to be arranged just as they stood in the 
train.  Vardo, of course, was a PRR facility.  Switching and clerical work was performed 
by PRR (later PC) people.  One crusty old Sheandoah Division conductor started matching 
waybills with the consist and concluded that the clerk had dumped the waybills into a trash 
can and homoginized them.                      Harry Bundy 




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I am interested in knowing the standing order of trains as set forth on switchlists in the mid-1950's on the N&W.  Did the switchlist give the standing order of cars in the train from the caboose to the locomotive, or, from the locomotive to caboose? 

Jim Brewer 
Glenwood MD 
Jim, 
I'm sure every railroad had its own vernacular.  Usually the document given to the conductor 
showing car initial & number, destination, etc. was referred to as the consist.  A switch list 
was the document given to the yard crew that the yardmaster had designated which track 
the car (s) should be guided to.  On the N&W, the consists were arranged from engine 
to caboose in standing order.  The waybills were to be arranged just as they stood in the 
train.  Vardo, of course, was a PRR facility.  Switching and clerical work was performed 
by PRR (later PC) people.  One crusty old Sheandoah Division conductor started matching 
waybills with the consist and concluded that the clerk had dumped the waybills into a trash 
can and homoginized them.                      Harry Bundy 

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