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(erielack) Location of "JB" Turnout

"JB" was at MP 351.05, east of Dalton and just east of the present day  
CP-ROSS.  A circa 1920 track chart shows a double-ended (correction  from 
previous post) center siding beginning west of bridge 350.53 and  extending 
westward to about 351.5, or just east of bridge 351.62 at  Rosses.  This would 
have required three spans at bridge 351.42.  The  three-track-wide roadbed 
still extends over this distance.
 
The current state highway alignment did not exist in the teens and  
twenties.  The main road between Dalton and Swains was on the south side of  the 
Erie between about MP 351 and the overhead bridge at about MP 353.   East of 
the crossing at Rosses, it survives as a dead-end road today, the  overhead 
bridge having been removed in the Conrail years.  Before the road  that is 
now State Route 70 was built, the main road continued on the south side  of 
the Erie for a short distance and then crossed it at a sharp angle.   "JB" was 
near that crossing.  
 
The tower operator at River Junction in 1929 got his start at JB when the  
tower was only a boxcar body.  It is not clear that there ever was an  
actual tower there.  The 1910 grade reduction project eliminated the  need for 
helper engines between Rosses and Dalton and resulted in  closing JB.  A 
retired conductor, now dead, recalled that "JB" remained but  was closed when he 
started with the railroad in 1916.
 
 


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