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Definition of Spur track
1. Noun. A railway line connected to a trunk line.
Generic synonyms: Line, Rail Line, Railway Line
Specialized synonyms: Loop-line
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spur Track
Literary usage of Spur track
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1921)
"... the defendant'— and having submitted to the jury the questions whether the
plaintiff was damaged by extending the spur track over the lands in question, ..."
2. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1911)
"At the time of filing the papers the applicant was required to deposit n sum
equal to $10 for every block of the length of the proposed spur track, ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1917)
"In virtue of this consent a spur track projecting from the main tracks as they
curved into the terminal block was built which ran down to and upon the ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1918)
"Said spur track shall I>e located on the northeasterly side of defendant's main
track at a point near the center of section 22, township 21 north, ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1889)
"Just east of the spur track, and on the north side of Bridge Street, was a planing-
mill, the platform of which extended west to the spur track, ..."
6. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1902)
"The Commissioners find that the side or spur track complained of is situated at
the junction of Clinton and Mineral streets and that it was originally a ..."
7. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1916)
"Commission — Jurisdiction — Rebuilding of industrial spur track -used in ...
That the shipments to an owner abutting on an industrial spur track are ..."
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