Why does the same car occasionally appear twice on a fast freight switchlist?
This is normal for fast freights since when they go through an interchange they are set out and picked up so to speak. In the old days, the waybills had to be stamped by the interchanging railroads to signify responsibility transfer or access permission to use the other Division’s rails. In the internet version, a handoff to the other division and its locos occurs at the interchange. The first division sets out the cars and the second division picks up the car. I unchecked the “ignore siding full” in the switch lists box. This now keeps my passing siding/interchange (yard) filled with the max cars, but no overload. The down side is that traffic is barely moving on the layout. You probably need to run more fast freights that pick up the cars at the interchange and deliver them to their destination. Remember that if the destination is off layout, you must manually remove the cars when they arrive at the interchange! Is the un/load times multiplied by the number of cars per batch by the s
