Yard Tracker™ is Railserve’s web-based application that allows users to maintain and track railcars in a customer’s rail yard. We tailor the application to our customer’s facility. You can specify the yards, tracks, commodities, and departments unique to each location. It’s easy to use for customers and Railserve employees. It features drag-and-drop functionality to relocate cars in the yard. The current car status can be updated individually or by selecting groups of railcars on a track with a few clicks. The user can also right-click any car in the yard and get an on-screen list of the car’s history showing each move or change of status for both the current and each previous time the railcar was in the yard. It is like a railcar management system for the industrial rail yard.

Cars can be automatically loaded into Yard Tracker via EDI. Railserve worked with several class one railroads to receive 418’s electronically on behalf of the customer. Cars can also be loaded manually or imported from a standard flat file.

The Location Status window provides an overview of where cars are in the yard. This portion of the application works much like a spreadsheet table allowing the user to group, sort, and filter cars in the yard.

Demurrage tracking is another feature of Yard Tracker. Demurrage parameters are setup per railroad. These parameters can be setup to reflect the same rules as the Railroad would charge in order to help monitor and validate costs that can be incurred and to help ensure first in first out servicing of railcars.

The user can also use this section to generate ad hoc reports. Yard Tracker also has standard reports to help both the customer and switchman review and manage the cars in the yard. Each report can be printed or saved in several formats, including PDF and office file types. These reports can be added to a reporting scheduler that allows for a quick setup of rules to generate reports to any recipients on any schedule a user wants to create. Railserve is proud to offer this application to increase efficiencies at customer locations and looks forward to continued enhancements.

We monitor every railcar in the rail yard.

See details on location, load status, product line, and more.

Yard Tracker has detailed reporting features.

To learn more about tracking your rail yard with Yard Tracker, contact us today. Call 1.800.345.7245