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Re: (erielack) Location of "JB" Turnout
WDB...
Thank you very much for the information. I never knew about the other siding near Dalton.
- -pat moore
- --- On Sun, 8/1/10, Wdburt1_@_aol.com <Wdburt1@aol.com> wrote:
> From: Wdburt1_@_aol.com <Wdburt1@aol.com>
> Subject: (erielack) Location of "JB" Turnout
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 9:17 AM
>
> "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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