Today, I drove by a perfect example of a team track for someone to model with limited space. The spur is just off of a four lane surface street with the main on the other side of the street. The spur crosses the street at an angle and the team track is at the same angle, but about 70 feet from the street. The spur is just long enough to accept three 25,000 gallon tank cars. There is a crushed stone lot alongside the track with enough room for multiple semis to pull in and move around. There were three cars spotted there today, but they did not have any hazardous material placards on them. One looked like it had hauled asphalt as there was a lumpy black material around the dome. Anyway, there aren’t any sort of unloading pipes, or ladders, or stands of any sort here just a small locked box and a no trespassing sign. It looks like tank trucks just pull up parallel to the rail cars and couple their own hoses to the cars for unloading. A very simple set up to provide a revenue point for a model railroad.
Do you have a Bing or Google maps reference?
Sorry, that was pretty lame on my part. The address is 1259 W. Laskey Road, Toledo, OH.
The satellite view shows the track, but the map doesn’t. Oddly enough, the Street View shows trucks at the site unloading.
The team track is part of a larger yard and additional customer spurs that lay behind the unloading facility. There is a spur to a closed 84 Lumber yard. There is a small storage yard that supplied rail cars to a GM Power Train factory on an adjacent road. It now appears to be a rail car scrapping facility. There is also a switch back spurs that service a General Mills cereal plant. The tracks were part of the old Toledo Terminal RR that is now owned by CSX. The mainline along Laskey now stops a short distance west of this spur, but it used to run all the way around Toledo. The track that runs up through the GM factory grounds was originally a DT&I line that interchanged with the TTRR at this site. The gray gravel patch behind the black fence was where the DT&I yard office was located. Thus the team track was originally a DT&I spur.
Thanks for the map. One of my roommates down at Ohio U. worked his summers at that GM plant.