Okay... my mind is definately failing me and I could use a little help with terminology. There is a spur track with a wooden ramp to off load (or even load) a boxcar or other rolling stock. There are few buildings in the area but they do not have actual sidings to the mainline... therefore they use this as their means of being connected to the railroad. There is a name for this and I can't remember it!!! (NO NOT Alzheimers Disease) I'm talking about the ramp on the rail spur. At least I think thats what I'm asking about???
THAT's IT!!! Exactly the darn phrase I couldn't scrounge-up from the depths of my cluttered and decaying mind. Sadly... of all the things I lost in my life... my mind is the one I miss the most. Thank-you for the quick reply.
I Have "OldTimers" disease all the time...:tb-wacky: I have gone looking for myself. If I should return before I get back, please keep me here until I return...Thank You ! .
I knew it was one of the tra(c)ks but couldn't recall if it was Team-, RIP-, spur-, balloon-, Uni-, N-, One-, Bend-, Am- or Easy-. I mean so many, I lose track of them all.
Everyone should click the link Flash provided in his post above and quoted here in this post. I have been using the phrase "team track" for decades but did not realize until the last year or so that it got its name from the old days when teams of horses or oxen would pull wagons of goods to and from these sidings. I had always assumed "team" was an acronym like TOFC or COFC*. Jamie *Just in case: TOFC = Trailer On Flat Car; COFC = Container On Flat Car
Is it the thing? I tell my wife, "We're gonna do thing- you know, with thing"! She looks at me like I need help. Are you talking about that spur track with a wooden ramp to off load (or even load) a boxcar... There are few buildings in the area but they do not have actual sidings... therefore they use this as their means of... the railroad thing? Because if it is, you better explain this thing to my wife and she better be buying what you're selling or I'm in deep trouble for that decision to not put a team track in and went ahead to put dollars into a full blown industrial park with rail access- kinda thing. Mark (a.k.a. dead meat)
What a relief.... Sure am glad to have so many folks in the same condition... makes me feel right at home. Well now to get back to whatever it is I do... think I'll go to that boxy looking thing that keeps the food cold and freezes water in the kitchen... whatever that's called... probably would make a good railroad car too if it were bigger...
Today I couldn't remember where I put my dress slacks for work. I still don't know where they are. I checked the two places they are supposed to be, well, after I remembered where those places were. Anyway, I found my older pair of dress slacks. I probably put them in that thing I store everything else in when I can't remember where to put it. Now all I have to do is find that.
Hmmmm.... Steve... perhaps you should check to see if you put the old pair on over the new pair you were still wearing... lol .
Oooops. I wondered why folks were looking at me funny. Well, I mean they always do but this time it was "different" if you know what I mean. And I just thought I was putting on weight.
I remember I'm supposed to remember something, but forget what it was. There's a name for that, but I forget that, too.
A lot of things learned being a model railroader. Jamie... The strange thing about my forgetfulness is that often I learn something new... that I can later forget. It so happens that I knew that the ramp and track were there for the horse/oxen drawn wagons or vehicles to use as a point to transfer loads to or from a railcar... I just couldn't connect the dots from what I was thinking about... to the name. The side of the ramp along the track is 'trackside', obviously (though as dementia progresses it may not be?)... and the side of the ramp for loading wagons or vehicles is called the 'drayside'. Same holds true for the freighthouse doors... trackside for the trains... drayside for the carts (cartage) or vehicles. By definition (out of one of those big books filled with them) a 'dray' is: a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.. So as you can see... with all this information in my head its easy to forget... uh... ummm... that ramp next to the spur track in the town with buildings that use it... thingy...
Yep, I suffer from the same thing. I'd forget my butt if it weren't attached to me. What's cool is (at least where I live in Northern California) the team track hasn't died. I pass by one in Richmond every night. This morning, there was a center beam and a box car spotted there and I've seen covered hoppers and bulkhead flats there, too. Near where I work, behind the Petaluma station I've watched another center beam getting unloaded. Before that, near the South San Francisco station, I've seen a PFE reefer getting loaded/unloaded. I'm going to include one on my layout. Whenever I get off my duff and start on it.
