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Support having car stop at (scale, ice house, cleanout track) before, during, or after handling load #25

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Currently, SwitchList assumes an assigned car goes to the shipper, gets loaded, 
then taken to the receiver, and gets unloaded, then gets returned to the owning 
railroad.  On real trains, cars can stop at multiple other locations:

* A car could be held at a yard waiting for the lading's price to change.
* A car could go to an ice house for precooling before receiving fruit.
* A car could go to a scale after loading to weigh the load being shipped.
* A car could go to a cleanout track after being received to make sure it is 
suitable for the next customer.

SwitchList currently has no support for any of these, and adding support could 
make for interesting switching.  It might also be worth distinguishing between 
destinations where the car only sits temporarily while in the same train, and 
destinations where the car might sit for multiple days.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rwbowdi...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2011 at 6:14