Assigned Service Waybills

Sometimes the railroad will use home road cars for "assigned service", meaning they will use their own cars for special purposes.  Below is a waybill for a CP hopper car used in assigned service by the Keystone Coal Company. This waybill is unique because the coal company uses hoppers so often that they have their own waybill forms printed. This car is originating from the Keystone mine #14 in located in the town of Millcreek and will go offline to a colliery in Hazelton, PA.

Below is a photo of the CP hopper, car number 12, in the CP's early paint scheme listed in the waybill above.  A fine example of an Atlas 2 bay offset hopper along with truck mounted Micro-Trains couplers.

And in order to use the car again a special assigned service empty waybill is shown below sending the same car, this time empty back to the Keystone mine #14.  The yardmaster or agent is the person who writes up the waybill, in this case a Mr. Casey Jones.