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A portion of the Erie Railroad was purchased so that the tourist trains could cross the Kinzua Bridge.

When Sloan Cornell purchased a portion the K&K line, it began operation a tourist railroad over the segment of the line from Kane to Marienville (originally the site of another of the Knox Glass Bottle Company's plants), and back to Kane. The last coal shipper on the line, Zacheryl Coal, went bankrupt not too many years after the K&K acquired the line, which materially reduced shipping over the line, and thus reduced income. A conductor's report from one northbound freight train (Foxburg to Kane) in the early 1960s showed in excess of fifty loads of coal shipped north out of Lucinda, most of it bound for ports on the Great Lakes. During the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, under B&O ownership, coal loadings from this area were quite extensive. Clarion's town fathers declined this honor, so the railroad cut back service to the west side of the river, which was eventually abandoned as well.Īt one time, the K&K derived some revenue from shipping out car loadings of coal from what had once been an extensive coal mining complex in and around the village of Lucinda, a few miles north of North Clarion Junction. The bridge over the Clarion River needed replacement and the railroad requested that the town help with funding the project. This branch was discontinued at around the time the B&O purchased the P&W. This ended the use of the Shippenville interchange.Īfter the Knox segment was embargoed, the southern terminus became what was known as North Clarion Junction, where there was a fibreboard plant and a wye, the tail track of which had been the P&W's line across to the east side of the Clarion River to the borough of Clarion (county seat of Clarion County). Operations in to Knox, which had been the original southern terminus of the K&K, were discontinued around the time the only real customer in Knox, the Knox glass bottle company, ceased operations. The B&O and NYC crossed each other not too far west of Shippenville for many years, but there had never been provision for interchange between the two roads. To ease this situation, a connection with the Conrail (originally the New York Central Railroad) line through Shippenville was put in place.

When the segment of the B&O from Foxburg to Knox was taken out of service, shipping raw materials, mostly glassmaking sand, to Knox Glass became difficult. This line was a part of the old Pittsburgh and Western Railroad, originally a 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow-gauge line created in the latter third of the 19th century from a merging of various earlier narrow-gauge lines. The track and right of way was bought from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1982 when the B&O discontinued operations on the old Northern Subdivision between Foxburg and Kane. The Knox and Kane Railroad (K&K) was a short-line railroad in Pennsylvania that operated between Knox, in Clarion County, to Kane and then on to Mount Jewett, in McKean County. Knox & Kane 58, in July 1990, before being repaintedĤ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge

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