1995

State of Franklin Street (Road, Highway?) in Johnson City. That's the old ET&WNC station left of center with the Goodyear sign on it. It took me a few visits to Johnson City to correlate my maps to the actual place. And this road is one of the reasons. The old photos always showed the dual gauge yard and subequent trackage in the downtown area. But now there are only a few tracks there, and they are owned by CSX. It finally dawned on me that this road was built on top of the old dual gauge yard. Here we are looking east towards Elizabethton from what was basically the end of the ET&WNC trackage. They actually had one track shared by the CC&O that ran down to the mill and foundry. This track would have been over on the right side of the photo in the the CSX tracks. That's the CSX on the right, the Southern (actually Norfolk Southern) mainline curving off on the left and a crossover interchange track crossing State of Franklin. State of Franklin follows the old dual gauge yard all the way till you get to Division Street, then it veers off to the left and ties in with Main Street. The backs of some of the buildings in the middle of the photo can be seen in old photos as the backdrop for an engine or train shot.