A railway line connected to a trunk line.
1 On the spur track lay a car half full of stone.
2 The express shed was a gloomy little den of a place on a spur track .
3 He got halfway to the gate, saw the weedy spur track tying Citgo to the Great Road, and sighed.
4 Ed would follow on the next train, or mebbe hire a special engine; and Ben would hide off on some blind spur track .
5 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.
6 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.
7 It enlarged the scope of the sleeping car companies, pipe lines, switches, spur tracks and terminals.
8 Spur tracks have been built and flat cars are used, much of the removal being done at night.
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