"West End" on the Champlain Division was really not that much of a mystery. When the Plattsburgh Track Gang went to West End to clean switches on Monday, Wednesday and Friday ahead of SC-15, the "Hog Job," they and I knew where they were. They were referring all of the Freydenburgh Falls Branch.
The valuation map shows "West End" as the original (1946) junction switch of the west end of the Freydenburgh Falls Branch with the Chateaugay Branch. The Freydenburg Falls Branch was relocated in 1967 and that junction switch was moved to the west about 1200 feet, but it was still called "West End."
A map of track relocations south and west of Plattsburgh looks like a bowl of spaghetti, dating long before the Air Force Base was built.
- Gordon Davids
