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This paper offers and overview of the concept, facilities provided, exchange operaiton and special features of the Dry Creek Bogie Exchange and a more detailed descriptoin of the methods employed to progress rakes of wagons to and from the storage tracks and the bogie exchange building.

The main emphasis of the paper is on the interfacing of conventional route setting and route locking practices with a remotely controlled unmanned shunting unit.