Reading, Blue Mountain and Northern has a transload facility in Schuylkill Haven, PA that has 2 covered load/unload areas. 40.628653, -76.191180 and 40.629530, -76.194061 (technically Cressona, PA according to google).
Also INRD reload facility Odon, IN 38.841170, -87.000019
INRD Senate Ave Terminal Indianapolis, IN 39.746945, -86.165685
there's a shortline here in NJ, Morristown & Erie, that has several, not more than a track next to a road
greg - Philadelphia & Reading / Reading
Our town actually still has one down by the "depot" (now MOW shed). During season it's not uncommon to see several hoppers there being loaded from trucks bringing corn or soybeans in from the fields.
What's also interesting even as late as 10 years ago there were several small "industries" that received shipment by rail grouped near each other. One was a classic propane dealer, a lumber yard, and a, believe or not, grocery supplier that was a true modeler's dream, just barely bigger than the refrigerors that arrived a couple times a week.
jim
First a little play on words..Team track is to old fashion so,they are now called "Transload" track(s) and usually ran by a contractor and some of the larger ones have warehouses that accepts cold foods to Tonka Toys and everything else that needs stored.
These are no small concerns like the old fashion freight house and can unload/load up to 15 freight cars inside including centerbeams loaded with drywall.There will be several truck loading bays(dock doors) on the street side.
Cars like tank cars,covered hoppers,steel coil cars,loads of lumber and gondolas can be unloaded or loaded outside.
Short lines may even have a small shed for storing forklifts. Some of the larger short lines have small warehouses.
Larry
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Beach Bill They definately still exist, but "rustic structures" are usually not part of today's team tracks. The Strasburg RR in Pennsylvania added a number of spurs with decent paving around them to facilitate freight car to truck unloading, and it brought them quite a bit of new traffic. Bill
They definately still exist, but "rustic structures" are usually not part of today's team tracks. The Strasburg RR in Pennsylvania added a number of spurs with decent paving around them to facilitate freight car to truck unloading, and it brought them quite a bit of new traffic.
Bill
I'll have to check it out a little closer next time I'm in town. As far as I could tell from my vantage point, it was a single track spur leading to the platform. It looked like it would be right at home on a little 4x8 layout.
If so, how common are they?
I live about 10 miles south of Mt. Vernon, OH which is served by a branch of the Ohio Central which runs north out of Newark, OH. I believe at one time it was a branch of the B&O and ran all the way north to Sandusky, OH but the last remant of the line north of Mt. Vernon was abandoned about 10 years ago. Until this morning I thought the only customer on the line were the grain elevators in Mt. Vernon but as I was driving through a part of town I rarely if ever have been through before I noticed a spur track a few blocks south of the grain elevators. I drove around and saw it led to what looked like a covered freight platform. It was a very rustic structure that looks like it would be interesting to model. I couldn't get close enough to it from the street I was on and didn't have time to drive around to the other side but I didn't see any buildings around the platform. I was wondering if this might be a team track. For some reason I thought they were a relic of days gone by but now I'm not so sure.