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Post by Country Joe on May 16, 2020 16:11:08 GMT
PTC started a thread featuring passenger stations on our layouts, now it's time to see freight stations. I have two, a small freight station
And a freight platform or team track
Let's see your freight stations, platforms and team tracks.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 16:14:14 GMT
Great detail and good photography Joe, Let me see what i have.
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Post by RLM on May 16, 2020 16:17:51 GMT
Here is mine.  |
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Post by Country Joe on May 16, 2020 16:34:32 GMT
Andre, that is a great scene. I love the way you framed the photo with the boxcar and the loco. đź‘Ť
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Post by Country Joe on May 16, 2020 16:36:10 GMT
Great detail and good photography Joe, Let me see what i have.
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Post by ptc on May 16, 2020 16:44:45 GMT
Excellent thread, Joe.
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Post by fabforrest on May 16, 2020 21:30:58 GMT
What is a team track?
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Post by 4dogsinjersey on May 17, 2020 1:34:04 GMT
It was a siding that wasn’t adjacent to any business or industry. It was basically a siding where wagons drawn by teams of horses, could access freight cars spotted there by the railroad. Later it was trucks, but the term “team track” stuck. An example of a team track situation was in my old hometown. A lumber company, a couple towns away, didn’t have rail service. So the railroad had a siding with a road next to it. The lumber company would order lumber, the boxcar would arrive and be spotted on the team track. The lumber company then used trucks to unload and transport the carload of lumber to the distant lumberyard. Basically the team track was there for the use of industry or party that had no direct rail connection for the delivery of goods....  The famous “Sears House Kits” were shipped to builders in boxcars... youtu.be/zrzvMijR9VcTom |
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Post by Country Joe on May 17, 2020 12:17:50 GMT
Tom gave a very good answer. In addition, a team track wasn't a freight station but it could have a platform or ramp to aid in unloading freight cars, or it could just be a track by a road or lot with no facilities at all.
The name derives from the days when freight wagons were pulled by teams of horses and the men who drove them were teamsters, and when they formed a union they called it a Teamsters Union which is how the current Teamsters Union got it's name.
Businesses that were too small to require an industrial siding could pool their resources and have a team track in their area. Any sort of freight car could be on a team track.
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Post by Country Joe on May 17, 2020 12:24:42 GMT
Tom, thanks for the clip from Jean Shepherd's show. I loved both his radio show and short lived TV show. He was a fabulous story teller. Were you a fan? If so, do you remember the fictitious book, I Libertine, which made it to the NY Times best seller list?
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Post by josef on May 17, 2020 13:19:40 GMT
Team tracks were a big thing in my hometown. There were only 3 freight station one for the Milwaukee Rd which was torn down in early 50s and only the stockyard was left open for hog and cattle shipping twice each week. Then there was the NYC passenger/freight station which today is a museum. Only 2 places had sidings dedicated to service them, Tabler & Son lumber and Coal business and Almo Lumber company. Otherwise it was team trackage which serviced another lumber company with delivery's and outgoing boxcars and flats which were there for Erickson Textile, Strongheart Dog/cat food, Singers Venetian Blind company and a local junk dealer that had flats for flattened junk cars. The Team trackage is now gone as the users are no longer there. The only siding left is for the Grain elevators East side of town. The C&E I RR station near the Grain Elevators, had its freight station demolished in mid 50s as well as the passenger station reduced in size. I collect pictures of the railroads and downtown of my hometown, many from collectors and many more taken by people I know who had private photos of the area and have shared them with me. At present I have over 2200 photos, and postcards.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 13:59:36 GMT
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Post by Country Joe on May 17, 2020 14:10:05 GMT
Thanks for that explanation Tom. A term that gained big significance in the Union world. I have 6 sidings. One has a platform but all are used for operations on the Geezerville RR. I hope this meets your criteria.
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Post by 4dogsinjersey on May 17, 2020 16:00:29 GMT
Tom, thanks for the clip from Jean Shepherd's show. I loved both his radio show and short lived TV show. He was a fabulous story teller. Were you a fan? If so, do you remember the fictitious book, I Libertine, which made it to the NY Times best seller list? Joe, my first exposure to Jean Shepherd was the movie he made about the 4th of July. I was just a kid. Then Christmas Story came out and that started my long term interest in his work. I actually found a fellow who copied DVDs of his four movies, “Star Crossed”, “Phantom of the Open Hearth”, ”Great American 4th of July” and “Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss”. I have read his books too. I treasure them. Tom
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Post by fabforrest on May 17, 2020 16:41:53 GMT
Thanks for the Team Track explanations!!
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