A Team Track is a short siding (usually only a few cars long) either with or
without a loading dock or ramp near a road or street which is accessable to a
team of horses and wagon. Today it would be a truck. For the loading or
unloading of cargo by a customer who does not have his own siding. Todays
truck drivers are called teamsters. The Team Track need not be near the depot
or yard. Most railroads use the same term for the same thing. .
--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Carroll, Ed <ed.carroll@heartland.edu> wrote:
From: Carroll, Ed <ed.carroll@heartland.edu>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Team Tracks
To: "CBQ@yahoogroups.com" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 9:36 PM
In Ottawa the team track was a siding north of the depot and several merchants
and businesses received less than carload shipments from the same boxcar. In
the late 1950s and early 1960s the circus came to Ottawa and one car had a
broken ramp and was unloaded on the wooden loading platform of the team track.
One of the old men at my neighborhood church was a retired trucker who had his
first job with a wagon and a team of horses hauling freight from the team track
to businesses in town before the lateral canal on Canal St. was filled in. The
area north of the end of the team track had an area large enough to turn a
truck or as my father said a team and wagon.
Ed
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From: CBQ@yahoogroups. com [CBQ@yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Russ Strodtz
[normansen@groundcon trol.us]
Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 9:00 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks
Ralph,
"Team" as of, a guy that had a teaming horse. Went to
a town and paid for business and then hauled it to your
farm or selling/buying it.
Many other places on the C&BQ did not use that. Like in
Wisconsin they called it "Business Track". They did not
use "Team".
Russ
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Sent: Sunday, 12 April, 2009 20:43
Subject: [CBQ] Team Tracks
>I was reading one of my Burlington Bulletins and read a caption referring
>to the "team" tracks at Denver. What does "team" track mean?
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> While working for the railroad out of Galesburg, I've been somewhere,
> maybe Burlington, that has track named "team" track. Until reading the
> bulletin, I assumed the name "team" track was a one-of-a-kind.
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> R.W. Brown, Jr.
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> Galesburg, IL
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