ANother name for a Team Track was "Public Track"...The name, as you might
suspect, goes back to the days when "teams of horses" were used by "draymen" to
haul freight from railroad "sidings" to businesses "uptown".?
Every business in a town which received shipments by rail did not have its own
track, although some did.? When carload? business arrived at a station ie
boxcar loads of lumber, wallboard etc as well as sand, gravel, cement, coal and
other bulk commodities these shipments were "teamed" from the railroad siding
to the business by draymen hired by the business.?
In many medium sized or even small towns there was enough "dray" business to
provide full time employment for a man or two.
Talk about something being "labor intensive"...A carload of coal would arrive
by rail and be spotted on the teamtrack...The lumberyard's drayman would back
his truck or wagon up to the car and shovel off a load of coal.? He would then
haul it uptown to the lumberyard's coal bins and shovel the coal into the
bin....Later when the lumberyard received an order from a residential customer
for a load of coal the same drayman would back his truck up to the lumberyard
coal pile--shovel on a load...drive out to the customer's home and shovel off
the load into the homeowner's coal bin..Then said homeowner would shovel the
coal into it's furnace.
How do I know this...I lived it...saw it done and did some of it myself.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph W. Brown, Jr. <cbq682@grics.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 8:43 pm
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?
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.
R.W. Brown, Jr.
Galesburg, IL
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