I can think of 'Arrival', 'Receiving', 'Inbound', and 'Setout' as all meaning a track where cars arriving in a yard are left for local handling. Then there are 'Departure', 'Forwarding', 'Outbound', and 'Pickup' for tracks where a train would originate or a through train would find a block of cars to take. What other terms for these tracks have you heard?
ChuckAllen, TX
I can't offer any specific examples off the top of my head, but it seems like I've read that some railroads, or more specifically some locales, had names for such tracks that were more descriptive of a location than a function.
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Here in Roanoke, there is the "Empty Side" yard and "Empty Side Ladder", "Big Hopper" yard, East & West bound running tracks plus "The Running Track" track and "Freight Runner", "Stock Pen Lead", the old Park Street "Pull-Up", "Motive Power Ladder". That's just in the north yard.
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On the PRR we had a CA&C runner,Passenger runner,roundhouse runner,inbound/outbound tracks for all 4 yards,Shops lead, Union Station coach yard lead and Bone(bone yard).There was Pen-Nor yard where the PRR and N&W transfered loaded and empty coal trains bound to and from the Sandusky docks. This lasted until N&W bought the Sandusky line.
And then there were the local yard,cabin tracks,GM (Fisher Body) Westinghouse and several others all cramed together in the Cleveland Ave yard complex in Columbus,Oh.
Yes,it was a large yard.
Larry
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As tree said: it seems function not locale is the key i.e. a wye on the UPRR (ex MoPac) at Wynne AR is call to this day coal chute wye vs. cattle chute wye wonder how they got those names???? Means nutin’ in the present dazes endmrw0615161057
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The ONE the ONLY/ Paragould Arkansas/ 1883 called The Crossing/ a portmanteau/ JW Paramore (Cotton Belt RR) Jay Gould (MoPac)/ None other, nowhere in the world
I find NS's use of "forwarding" tracks for the departure yard confusing (annoying?) . But, then I'm and ex-Con.
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
Departure Yard = Advance Yard
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