IT's TEAM TRACK TUESDAY!!! 1-29-19 EDITION

Trumptrain,

I’m sorry to see your posts go. Tuesday always is a very busy day for me and I only have one finished team track on my layout which is why I couldn’t participate often! I’ve always considered TTT and SS to be original threads before the barrage of “what day is this “ threads! I play in a band that rehearses on Tuesday. We could use a trumpet player to blast out those high notes now that you’ve got more spare time! Anyway, thanks for the weekly threads. I did get a lot of inspiration from yours and the other photos that were posted. Here’s a final photo of my team track! Thanks!

NYC 8504 slowly pushes a box car to the ramp while the boys waiting to load the are thinking “hurry it up would ya “!

Thanks TRUMPTRAIN  for all your work the last few years  !

I also thank all the others that posted here ( TEAM TRACK TUESDAY )  .

I always looked forward to Tuesdays 

Patrick, Thanks for two and a half years of great stories and pictures.  TTT was a prime example of why many of us got involved with toy trains all those years ago.  A toy and our imaginations would transport us to wherever we wanted to go and transform the world around us into whatever we wanted it to be.  Your posts and all who contributed was truly inspirational.  Alas with no layout I was only able to admire but not contribute.  I'll be looking forward to OTTT.

Patrick, I second COACH JOE. I have enjoyed your TTT along with the others posting............Paul

Thank you for all your efforts to make this a great thread.

Its been a good ride and hope to see Trumptrain in the future!

Got this recently from Menards 

Thanks for 2 and a half years of creativity Patrick - although I wasn't always able to "stop by" during the week, I appreciated the posts very much.

I do understand the "fatigue" side of this, SWSAT is coming up on four years and it's hard sometimes to get it going every week - even though I've always had help.

Patrick, I would like to sincerely Thank You for all your effort keeping TT going. I can only speak for myself, but , some of the scenes were truly inspiring, and helped me find the effort to scratch build some of the accessories I now have, and enjoy on my layout. Many Thanks, and more Blessings on You and Yours.

Thanks guys for all your kind words!  Remember the team track has not disappeared into the weeds and will still appear as ON THE TEAM TRACK periodically.   

Rich Murnane - it was your creation of  SWSAT that inspired TTT.  Thanks for the inspiration ... and WOW coming up on 4 years with SWSAT is quite a momentous occasion!!  Congratulations!! That anniversary will be a great celebration of switchers for sure!!  I'll see you this you this Saturday riding the switcher!  

NYC Z - Man - your scene shows the classic team track!  I like it very much and I love the B&M boxcar spotted next to the K line unloading ramp!  Very cool!

Coach Joe - thanks for stopping by as always!  I love what you said about toy trains and imagination ... awesome!

Brian - as always you come up with the perfect prototype photo! " refueling" Thanks again for all your weekly contributions to this thread!

RPM Cobra - nice photo!  The arrows coming and going  Most appropriate! 

Clarence - so happy to hear that TTT provided inspiration for you to scratch build accessories! 

Thanks to all the others who commented this week and again thanks to all those who contributed photos and commentary since the start of TTT ....   be it once or once in a while or just by showing up to take a gander at the weekly happenings on the team track.  It was truly all of you who made this thread a great run!   See you all on a team track somewhere down the line!

Patrick,

Thank you for your efforts.  Thank you for this gift.

Lou N

Patrick- this was, and will continue to be, a great thread. I can honestly say that finding this thread was what inspired me to build my Team Track area. It has been fun, but hard to keep up each week. Your creativity, and collection of cars, trucks, people, and "stuff" for the scenes you created each week is amazing.

Keep it up- I'm sure you will get inspired again soon.
Thanks for all you did to keep it going.

Bob

trumptrain posted:

Thanks guys for all your kind words!  Remember the team track has not disappeared into the weeds and will still appear as ON THE TEAM TRACK periodically.   

Rich Murnane - it was your creation of  SWSAT that inspired TTT.  Thanks for the inspiration ... and WOW coming up on 4 years with SWSAT is quite a momentous occasion!!  Congratulations!! That anniversary will be a great celebration of switchers for sure!!  I'll see you this you this Saturday riding the switcher!  

NYC Z - Man - your scene shows the classic team track!  I like it very much and I love the B&M boxcar spotted next to the K line unloading ramp!  Very cool!

Coach Joe - thanks for stopping by as always!  I love what you said about toy trains and imagination ... awesome!

Brian - as always you come up with the perfect prototype photo! " refueling" Thanks again for all your weekly contributions to this thread!

RPM Cobra - nice photo!  The arrows coming and going  Most appropriate! 

Clarence - so happy to hear that TTT provided inspiration for you to scratch build accessories! 

Thanks to all the others who commented this week and again thanks to all those who contributed photos and commentary since the start of TTT ....   be it once or once in a while or just by showing up to take a gander at the weekly happenings on the team track.  It was truly all of you who made this thread a great run!   See you all on a team track somewhere down the line!

Thanks Trumptrain the selling point for me was the mustang in the drive through

Briansilvermustang I thought you might like these mustangs at Mel's Drive In. 

RSJB18 noticed last week your photo of a mustang being unloaded

RSJB18 posted:

 

 

Any Idea the year of any of there pictures?

Jim

carsntrains posted:

RSJB18 posted:

 

 

Any Idea the year of any of there pictures?

Jim

Afraid not...random photos from Google images.

Sweet pics today!

briansilvermustang posted:

 

                                      Happy "TEAM TRACK TUESDAY" !

 

 

Malcolm McLean would be proud!

briansilvermustang posted:

   

   2/19   "T T T"...         have a good one...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great pictures BRIANSILVERMUSTANG but it looks like the old model T's are so lite weight you could load them by hand ?

MA & PA  Dairy farm country

Happy TTT- keeping the Auto theme going.

briansilvermustang posted:

         

rpmcobra posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

 

   2/19   "T T T"...         have a good one...

Great pictures BRIANSILVERMUSTANG but it looks like the old model T's are so lite weight you could load them by hand ?

          that's for shipping, they get their V-8's and 315's at their destination...

 

 

 

 

That model T has mustang motors

RSJB18 posted:

Happy TTT- keeping the Auto theme going.

Obviously the paint job came after the train ride

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

      with a little re-fueling ,   "TTT"  can live on...   really like this thread...

 

Brian

I was going to do this with my white 3000 but I didn’t know how authentic it was thanks for posting this  I wish I would’ve got it ready for this week 

briansilvermustang posted:

 

                                      Happy "TEAM TRACK TUESDAY" !

 

 

Brian

Thanks  for posting this I’ve been looking for years for pics like this  of the Mopac There’s one of those containers sitting by our shop that’s kind buried but you can still see one full side of the Mopac logo I will try to get a pic of it one day and post it 

RSJB18 posted:

 

 

Bob

 What I like about the refrigerated Pennsylvania piggyback trailer is it says  tructrain refrigerated service  on it.  I have a set of those decals and HO scale 

 Patrick  

thank you for this thread I just bought a crane and start posting here but sounds like it’s not total gone. Here’s my bosses “team track” Operation they bring boxcars in loaded with  roofing shingles unloads them on some flatbeds and deliver them throughout the city.  I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but I always forget it.

                  2/26  " T T T "      have a great day everyone !

         ran across this freight building and loading dock,

                                in Holgate, Ohio  Saturday on our road trip...   pretty cool !!

    someone else's road trip in 2009....  http://www.n8rrb.com/trains/trips/02152009/

         On the east side of Defiance are a couple of large customers, one looks like a steel mill and the other an autoparts supplier. A small yard also parallels the B&O main. An unknown CSX locomotive was coupled to caboose CSXT 900001 on the spur into the plants. Further east is Holgate where the B&O crossed a N&W (ex-NKP, Toledo St. Louis & Western) line. A depot/freight office sits on an angle at the former diamond location and is used by CSX MofW.

                                                        here it is in 2000...

                                https://www.west2k.com/ohstations/henry.shtml

lee drennen posted:

 Patrick  

thank you for this thread I just bought a crane and start posting here but sounds like it’s not total gone. Here’s my bosses “team track” Operation they bring boxcars in loaded with  roofing shingles unloads them on some flatbeds and deliver them throughout the city.  I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but I always forget it.

This post illustrates the versatility of the Team Track. You might find almost any type of car with almost any cargo spotted on a team track. For several years a team track in Somerset, Pa would periodically have a tank car spotted that tank trucks would load from. It was glycol being used in some local process. Sorry I never took a pic because I model that now on the Plywood Empire Route.

Lew

Home sweet home

Our terminal is in the old Katy Railroad off of Gimblin in New Baden north St. Louis here’s a pic of the ramp they use to back to piggyback trailer up and load them on to the flat cars there were two sets of tracks it came in to this ramp it’s still there today I took this last fall

          3/5  " T T T "...          working on the team track...

briansilvermustang posted:

 

          3/5  " T T T "...          working on the team track...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian strange thing I noticed is that the Southern pulled a ton of those Rail Box cars!   And I saw where Southern was storing them and had to move a bunch to another yard.    I wonder if they owned Rail Box??

EDIT: UGGGG I googled Rail Box.    Its a co-operative company like Trailer Train ... 

Jim

Ya, Railbox was a way to get around old ICC regulations that said once empty a car had to be returned [empty] to it's ownership railroad. By pooling ownership each car when empty was simply sent on to the nearest customer with a load, a lot more efficient with a lot less empty car-miles.

Lew

briansilvermustang posted:

 

          3/5  " T T T "...          working on the team track...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian, I really like these "industries" that are so easy to model 

Lew

Brian thanks for another episode of TTT.  I'm sure Patrick doesn't mind keeping the thread going.

geysergazer posted:

Ya, Railbox was a way to get around old ICC regulations that said once empty a car had to be returned [empty] to it's ownership railroad. By pooling ownership each car when empty was simply sent on to the nearest customer with a load, a lot more efficient with a lot less empty car-miles.

Lew

Lew 

I  remember when I was a kid seeing those new rail box box cars these days they’re doing that with Container chassis like Happag Lloyd and so on. used to we had to return the chassis back to the Depo or get a chassis from the Depo for an evergreen box or a Happag box or OCL box now they have a pool we’re all them no matter what the steamship line it is they’re all in one pool called the Midwest chassis pool so you can put an Happag box on hangin chassis and so on  it is so much easier and time saving now in the old days it was a pain to drive all way across town to get a certain chassis for a certain box you would spend up to three or four hours just get your load or empty ready and then drive three hours to your customer