Pallanite

Pallanite was back in DONJ days just a pair of spurs to a small saw mill and a power station. But as JTJ was eatblished in 1970.s, the railroad needed a mid way stop for their operation. The tiny station building is an original DONJ station, serving as a flagstop further in wet at Stora Björnmossen. some 15 kilomters from the current site. Over the years more small buildings were added for the crew convience. As the line now runs to the very west end of the preserved line (earlier a trun around was in Tallås), the staion seem to see a minimum use. The current track plan is pure fiction, that has served its purpose on the cureent traffic base on the preserved line. But what is intersting and authentic for DONJ are the signal boards connected to the turnouts.

Tallås

The isolated Tallås dates from 1880 and does have had really intersting track plans in the past. The station was constructed with an expansion of a branch line to a blast furnace some ten kilometers in north, but the construction costs were to huge for the construction. This doomed the blast furnace and the furnace at Jädraås was further expanded. After these plans were discarded, the station was mainly used as lumber loading site. In the beginning it had a pair of runaround tracks connected to charcoal storage building and a loading dock. In 1936 the whole site was modified and a pararell track to timber loading facilty of Itranite some quarter miles to east.
The current trackplan is more modest, just a runaround track and spur leading to a turntable and few storage tracks connected to it. Note the depot building is undergoing a repaint. And the old outhouse now hosts a small cafe.

Tallås Bridge

Still heading west, Just a couple of hundred meters west of Tallås is a bridge over a small river and further few hundred meters a switch to a spur to a gravel pit. The switch is protected by a two winged semaphore since 1936. The bridge was the second largest on DONJ and the sole one on JTJ.

Svartbäcken Nedre

This very isolated spot in partly deforested area is the very end of the line today and the right of the way to the next station Svartbäcken is some 4 kilometers further away is now a forrest dirt road. For many years this section some one and half kilometers from Tallås was unused but in the 1990.s the preserved line widened the fill to accomendate a run around track and later a small depot was built here. Perhaps one day the line will continue further west to Svartbäcken.

Svartbäcken

Finally the abandoned station of Svartbäcken (Black Creek) The raod is terrible but stron enough to haul heavy trucks. Though it is just a few kilometers from the end of the line the trip to Svartbäcken feels a lot longer. JTJ has purchased the buildings in a hope for reconstructing the line here. Orignally the yard was two passing tracks and one huge and one smaller charcoal storage buildings and loading dock. The station is even more siolated than Tallås, whichis located next to a loacal road. Here there is nothing more than endless forrests of pine. The origanl yard is easy to spot as the road bed here is much wider.