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1. [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:43:23 -0500
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 somew
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00098.html (10,918 bytes)

2. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: dlgrobe@ameritech.net
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:52:35 +0000
I believe its an area where a car can be unloaded or loaded for a company that doesn't have its own siding. Dan --Original Message-- From: Ralph W. Brown, Jr. Sender: CBQ@yahoogroups.com To: CBQ@yaho
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00099.html (11,698 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: "Russ Strodtz" <normansen@groundcontrol.us>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:00:18 -0500
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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00101.html (12,022 bytes)

4. RE: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: "Carroll, Ed" <ed.carroll@heartland.edu>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:36:30 -0500
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 c
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00102.html (14,519 bytes)

5. RE: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: Cy Svobodny <ctsvobodny@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:07:32 -0700 (PDT)
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
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00104.html (14,055 bytes)

6. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:50:37 -0700 (PDT)
Often too a wholesaler would buy a load of produce, Apples, Peaches , oranges and sell them right out of the car with a simple ad in the local papers SJH In Ottawa the team track was a siding north o
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00107.html (14,446 bytes)

7. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@grics.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:31:09 -0500
So would I be correct in assuming that the Business Stub at Galesburg was named for this reason? I was under the impression the Business Stub got its name from the fact that they park the business ca
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00112.html (12,617 bytes)

8. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: "Russ Strodtz" <normansen@groundcontrol.us>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:51:02 -0500
Ralph, No, you are doing just fine. At Galesburg the Business Stub was locally used to identify the business cars. Local names might mean to lots of different things at different places. -- Yahoo! Gr
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00113.html (13,867 bytes)

9. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:19:51 -0400
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 busin
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00114.html (13,047 bytes)

10. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:24:29 -0400
Not being familiar with Galesburg, but assuming that the "Business Stub" you referred to was at the passenger depot and would be a likely spot to place Business cars, that, in that case your assumpti
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00115.html (13,373 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] Team Tracks (score: 1)
Author: Rick Buck <firecad67@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:54:23 -0700 (PDT)
And we call that the good ol days! Rick 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 h
/archives/BRHSLIST/2009-04/msg00116.html (11,554 bytes)


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