Sentence examples for spur track from inspiring English sources

The spur track was for a public purpose.

and Belvidere Block Corp. for construction and maintenance of spur track (p. 1 of agreement is missing).

Appropriately, an additional spur track is planned for Elysian Fields Avenue, the setting for the 1947 Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire".

That connection is with the main line of the New York Central by way of a spur track, known as 'Spur No 245,' operated by that railroad.

But this explanation is unsettled by a variant of Switch, according to which the large man is on the spur track, and that track now loops back onto the main one.

So, Al, you're stuck on a spur track in Chatsworth?

But when industrial spur tracks have been established within the carrier's switching limits, within which, also, various team tracks are located, these spurs may in fact constitute an essential part of the carrier's terminal system.

The Commission's order was assailed as beyond its authority, involving a discrimination in favor of the owners of plants located upon the spur tracks, and a deprivation of the property of the carriers without due process of law.

The adequacy of the public terminal facilities for carload freight in Los Angeles (consisting of the team tracks and freight sheds of the carriers respectively), the facts set forth with respect to the construction of the spur tracks, their location, the acquiescence in the switching charge and its maintenance, were established before the Commission, it is alleged, by undisputed evidence.

The Commission found that these spur tracks were portions of the terminal facilities of the carriers with whose lines they connected, being distinguished from mere plant facilities such as were under consideration in Chicago & A. R. Co. v. United States, 26 L.R.A. N.S). 551, 84 C. C. A. 324, 156 Fed.

Most of the Jackson Avenue frontage is taken up by piles of railroad signals behind a chain-link fence, outside a shed with the sign, "Signals R Us". The railyard has spur tracks on which a number of box cars and hopper cars were parked on a recent day, with bricks stacked on pallets nearby.