+Cargo™ is a software module that can be used as an additive to TrainController™.

With +Cargo™ the production, consumption and transport of freight can be simulated on your model railroad. +Cargo™ expands TrainController™ with features and functions that go beyond pure model railroad computer control.

+Cargo™ offers an attractive addition to model railroad control with TrainController™. The functions of +Cargo™ do not interfere with the control of trains. They are outside the actual train control system and can be used to give trains a reason to run at all. On real railroads, trains don't just move around just for fun. Rather, they serve to transport people or freight between different locations. This is the reason, why railroad operations arise. And this is exactly what is replicated by +Cargo™. Its functions create the need to transport freight between different locations on your model railroad.

+Cargo™ does not establish yet another car card or waybill system. Those systems play a role during the transportation of existing freight. So car cards or waybill systems are part of the transportation. +Cargo™, on the contrary, comes into play in what happens before and after transportation: supply and demand, production and consumption of freight.

Your model railroad, i.e. its tracks and trains are responsible for transportation. Transportation is performed with the usual means of TrainController™ by running trains manually or under control of the computer. It is also up to you whether you additionally use car cards or a waybill system for this or not. +Cargo™, on the contrary, is responsible for aspects of the outer world of your model railroad. +Cargo™ acts, where your model railroad begins and ends. At so called loading points, freight is produced and consumed. It is your responsibility to transport this freight from the producers to the consumers with the trains of your model railroad, in any way you like.
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