Meanings of spur track in English

On the spur track lay a car half full of stone.

The express shed was a gloomy little den of a place on a spur track.

He got halfway to the gate, saw the weedy spur track tying Citgo to the Great Road, and sighed.

Ed would follow on the next train, or mebbe hire a special engine; and Ben would hide off on some blind spur track.

Around a far bend in Dexter Allison's single spur track there came careening an ashmatic switch engine with a half-dozen empty flats in tow.

That spur track and engine means a crossing fight which can be prolonged indefinitely, with due vigilance on the part of Mr. Darrah's mercenaries.

It enlarged the scope of the sleeping car companies, pipe lines, switches, spur tracks and terminals.

Spur tracks have been built and flat cars are used, much of the removal being done at night.