June 1997

Johnson City

This is the Division street underpass looking north. This was built sometime between 1921 and 1923. Oh...1922. Before then, this would have been a grade crossing across about 8 standard gauge, narrow gauge and dual gauge tracks belonging to the CC&O and the ET&WNC, and those tracks would have been pretty busy most of the time. I imagine this underpass helped out the traffic flow once there were lots of cars running around Johnson City. It still amazes me to think of what was built in the early part of the century with none of the heavy machinery that we have today.