spur track
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of spur track
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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It would be simple to add a spur track that veers a short way south into Google’s campus, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 6, 2018
After concealing canopies were put up at the doors of the baggage cars, long Army trucks backed up to the spur track to be loaded with the 400-troy-oz. bricks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, I am trying to get a spur track from the X. Y. Z. Railroad to my factory on Spindle Street.
From The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man by Flagg, James Montgomery
Ed would follow on the next train, or mebbe hire a special engine; and Ben would hide off on some blind spur track.
From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon
The lumber yards were on a spur track not very far from the railway station where he had spent that miserable half hour the previous evening.
From The Portygee by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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