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* I stole this one from the Internet. * Modeling L.C.L. Service. As a modeler of the early 1950s, l.c.l. freight should be very significant. Major towns need to have a freight depot, preferably able to handle 6-8 cars on two parallel tracks. A third track with a ramp would be a bonus. Be sure your operators spot 40’ cars only and with the doors lined up. If you don’t have freight houses, try to rearrange your layout to add them. Be sure you assign spots at the freight house for specific destinations; this can create more switching opportunities. Here are two freight houses from the layout of Bob Barnett in Houston. Both have been kitbashed from two smaller kits. The lower one has a Santa Fe look and would be improved with a head house half the size of the one shown. * L.C.L. cars should begin arriving on the first trains into your yard. They need to be spotted at the freight house for unloading and delivery. These cars may trickle in as main and branchline trains arrive. The day is spent unloading and reloading the cars. Toward the end of your session the freighthouse should stop receiving shipments. Cars can now be pulled and sent on their way. They will usually be pulled together and sorted at the yard. If you have several major towns, at least one of the cars pulled at each freight house can be directed to each of the other freight houses. Some of your cars will arrive from and go to off-layout destinations. * If you have some major industries on your layout which would use l.c.l services, add a trap car to the outgoing loads and send it to the freight house in a major town. A furniture manufacturer, woolen mill, appliance manufacturer, candy factory, or mail order warehouse would be a good addition requiring daily l.c.l. trap transfers. * If your layout supports two railroads, have a freight house for each and operate a ferry car from one to the other each day each way through the interchange. * For your branch line operations, don’t forget to send the caboos