I would believe they'd be essentially the same. Both open to any shippers who'd need that access to ship or receive their merchandise.
I agree with BoxcabE50. A team track is an open air spur with perhaps a crane, unloading ramp and/or unloading platform. I think the origin of the term team track is from the teams of horses that would arrive with wagons in tow. A public warehouse would be an enclosed structure served by a spur to store and distribute goods. Some warehouses might specialize in perishable commodities.
I was just wondering because on the smaller of the two layouts (2x4 & a 5x5) it is industrial based off of the Minnesota commercial I wanted a building bit still taking tank cars and other cars thanks guys for all the help with this I've already built the building
I have two team tracks on my road and they're great for many types of cars, even covered hoppers, some types of which can be unloaded pneumatically into highway trailers. I wish I had some extra space for a circus-style ramp for piggyback loading. They don't load 'em this way anymore, but mine is a freelance road and I like the look.
More on team tracks vs public warehouses. A team track is usually a track in an outdoor area accessible to vehicles, where a customer with no siding of his own can have a load delivered, or load a car. The customer arranges shipment with freight agent. Customer is notified when car is delivered for loading or loaded car is delivered. Customer then has so many days to load or unload. Customer usually trucks to and from his own place of business. A public warehouse is often (usually?) a privately-owned business with its own railroad spur(s) and with truck loading docks. Customers contract with that warehouse company to ship or receive. However, in some cases, customers may also use public warehouse to store goods whether or not they are being shipped or received. For instance, a furniture store with a showroom in a deluxe downtown area may not have its own warehouse but contract to lease space. Goods might be delivered there by truck or rail, held there. WHEN SOLD, customer's (furniture dealer) truck picks it up to make delivery. A railroad freight station normally handles shipments for customers that don't have their own spurs, ESPECIALLY less-than-carload shipments (L-C-L). The freight station may load shipment from multiple customers going the same direction into one boxcar. Shipped at higher rate per pound than carload shipment, but less than express. Most L-C-L business went out around end of the 1950s. On the layout I am building, I am planning a team track, a freight station AND an express station, all in the general vicinity of the downtown passenger station. Nearby, but located on the rails of the port switching railroad is an ice plant, which also leases refrigerated space to Swift for receipt AND STORAGE of meat products until they are delivered to local area stores. On same spur as the ice plant, the "Peanut Butter Warehouse" is its own private business, receiving food products to distribute. Different types of "warehouse" produce subtle variations in types of cars handled and operating procedures.
