My Take On Operations "Game"

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I don't know if it would work - but instead of car cards, what if you had industry cards, and instead of waybills you dropped a card with the name of the car in - So, McHinerys card comes up expecting a load of short planks - You pick a suitable car, drop its card into the packet, and move that car to McHinerys, probably from the exchange siding, unless you have a sawmill /lumber dealer on the layout. When it has been delivered it returns empty to the yard. Johnson Canning wants an empty car suitable for cartons of cans - send them one from the yard, the industry card say deliver to Harrisburg Meats via exchange siding so that is where it goes. Every time a move is completed the industry card goes back in the pack. It really doesn't matter then if you have cars with the same numbers - you are just allocating a car with that number to an industry
Just another way of organising your switching