IT's TEAM TRACK TUESDAY 3/6/ 2018 Edition!!!!! Share your team track photos here!
Team tracks are a vital part of real railroading's daily operations. Practically every type of freight car, some passenger equipment, and MOW can be on/off loaded on team tracks. Team tracks are undesignated spurs that do not service a specific industry. Instead team tracks are used to provide on/off loading from railroad car to truck or vice versa for most any kind of industry to business that does not have its own railroad access.
You are invited to share your railroad's team track action here. Everyone is welcome to participate regardless if your railroad is an elaborately detailed museum quality layout or a simple oval of tin plate track with an undesignated spur. The intent of this thread is to have fun, inspire one another, and to learn more about team track operations. By creating new team track scenes often we can keep our creative juices flowing and allow a fresh look to our layout ( or all least part of it ).
This week on the Free State Junction Railway's team track number one located in Lower Patsburg a heavy duty recessed center flat car has been spotted by the local switch crew. This car was a " a special move" and required a caboose coupled next to the car during transit to it's destination here in Patsburg. This car and it's handler/expediter caboose arrived at Patsburg Yard at 11:33 a.m. March 5 and was pulled to team track one by a GE 44 tonner at 1:44 p.m am March 5. The caboose housed the "expediter" who accompanied the car and load from point of origin to final destination. The expediter makes sure the cargo gets to its destination undamaged and on time. The caboose is not shown because the switch crew was instructed to take it back to the yard. After the boiler is transferred and secured to the truck, the expediter will ride with the truck's driver to the courthouse construction site to facilitate the unloading. After doing this his job is done.
The car is loaded with a very large boiler which is destined for the new courthouse presently under construction. The courthouse is to be named after a famous lawyer named Arnold Cribari. Perhaps some of you have heard of him. He frequents a place called the OGR Forum.
As this boiler is a rather bulky load, B&O Big Hooker has been called out to do the heavy lifting. Big Hooker is being jockeyed around by a small but mighty Plymouth 18 tonner. As you will see in the first few frames the wooden bracing used to keep the boiler in place while in transit from Buffalo, NY has been torn away and workers are placing the lifting chains around the boiler. The unloading crew works from both sides of the car, as the foreman and expediter watch from the front of the B&O pick up. The expediter, knowing that he will sleep in a nice comfortable hotel room tonight and head back home on the first passenger train out of Patsburg in the morning, is sitting on the front bumper drinking a Dr. Pepper.
Patsburg Ave. has been blocked off north bound due to transfer of the boiler from rail to truck. All traffic must detour down Main Street. A Woody, pulling a vacation trailer, just made it in the nick of time before police closed the block down.
I weathered this freight car, a Lionel, and painted the boiler over the weekend to get them ready for this week's TTT.
Remember to share your railroad'
s team track action here. Thanks for stopping by and see ya next week on the TEAM TRACK. Have a fun and creative week!!
great photos.
Your Yankee Stadium team track is great and has a dual purpose meaning to the word "team"!
I also greatly appreciate the dimension of whimsical charm your layout has!!
