Welcome to TEAM TRACK TUESDAY!! Team Track are a vital part of day to day real railroad operations. Team tracks can be found in remote rural areas, small towns, and large cities. Team tracks are undesignated spurs that serve as off/on loading tracks for practically every kind of freight car, MOW equipment, and even some passenger train head end equipment. In a sense team tracks are multi - purpose tracks because of their utilitarian nature. Team tracks are also called public delivery tracks.
All are welcome to post your team track photos here. The purpose of this thread is to inspire one another. Changing team track scenes frequently helps keep our layouts looking fresh .... and face it ... the real railroads change their team track scenes all the time
So feel free to get with it and allow your railroad to become prototypical. 
If your railroad is well detailed museum quality or if you have a simple loop of tin plate track with an undesignated spur, feel free to post your pics. It's important that we see what is happening on your team track! Of course prototypical photos of team track operations are most welcome! If you miss posting on Tuesday, no worries, go ahead and post any day of the week.
This week of 1954 on the Free State Junction Railway's team tracks one and two in lower Patsburg nothing much exciting is going on in the way of unloading or loading. It seems over the past week all steam locomotive operations have been temporarily suspended, due to light freight traffic. Since diesels have been doing the lions share of the work, the demand for coal has been halted. Patburg's coaling tower is full to the brim with black diamonds and no one in the main office thought to put a temporary halt to coal orders, thus creating a glut of loaded coal hoppers which were slated for the coal tower at the steam locomotive servicing facility. Management decided to have the 44 tonner diesel locomotive's switch crew spot six loaded hoppers on team tracks 1 & 2 and store them there until the demand for coal picks back up ... which should be in a few days.
A kid rides over on her bike to check out the story on all these hopper cars. The switch crew arrives to pull the lead car forward so that the road is not blocked. Luckily for the railroad that per diem will only have to be paid on the C&O cars, the others belong to railroads that have a financial stake in the Free State Junction Railway and part of their agreement is that the FSJR does not pay per diem for those railroad's cars.
Have a wonderfully fun and creative week everyone!! See ya next week on the TEAM TRACK!!
some used Christmas trees... 
