Empty Waybills

What happens when your industry want to ship an item but you do not have an empty car to?  You would most likely fill out an empty car request form which would then go to a yard agent and he would look in his yard to see if there was an empty car he could send your way. Once a car is found he will add the car to the next local train which services your industry along with an empty car bill.

This would be the form that would accompany the car to your industry.

The top of the bill shows the type of car, this time a boxcar, the reporting marks, NH for New Haven railroad, and the car number 45007.

This type of bill can be used for 2 purposes.  In this example we are requesting an empty for loading, so the bill will be filled out under the "FOR LOADING" section when tells the conductor that the car needs to be dropped off at Lincoln Fuse in Millcreek for loading by that industry.

If you had emptied a foreign car and you wanted to send it to its home railroad you would fill out the "FOR HOME" section of the bill.

This bill shows that the yard agent in Berwick is sending the car to Scranton, PA which is in the direction of an interchange point with the NYC railroad.