Team track

Team track

A team track is a small railroad siding or spur track intended for the use of area merchants, manufacturers, farmers and other small businesses to personally load and unload products and merchandise, usually in smaller quantities. [Plant & Melvin 1999 p.55] The term "team" refers to the teams of horses or oxen delivering wagon-loads of freight transferred to or from railway cars. [Raymond 1937 p.180] Earliest rail service to an area often provided a team track on railroad-owned property adjacent to the railroad agent's train station. [DeVos et al. 1999 pp.8,24,27&76] As rail traffic became more established, large-volume shippers extended privately owned spur tracks into mines, factories, and warehouses. Small-volume shippers and shippers with facilities distant from the rail line continued using team tracks into the early part of the 20th century. Improved highway systems and abandonment of low-volume rail lines made full-distance truck shipments more practical in North America and avoided delays and damage associated with freight handling during transfer operations. [The Secretary of Transportation 1974 Intro]

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