It was sold at auction to The Valley Railroad Company in Essex, CT and is under current restoration. On March 16th, 2008 arson fire that destroyed the engine house in Kane, PA that housed various locomotives and railroad parts.The K&K RR #58 a 1989 China Railways SY class steam locomotive 2-8-2 was extensively damaged in this fire. In the spring of 2006, the Knox & Kane ceased both freight and tourist service. In 1982 the road was bought by the K&K.Ī tornado in 2003 extensively damaged the Kinzua Bridge viaduct in Mt. It was taken over by the Pittsburgh and Western in late 1883, and then in 1902 by the Baltimore and Ohio.
The road, originally was built by The Pittsburgh, Bradford and Buffalo Railway, was completed from Knox, PA through Marienville and Kane, and on to Mt Jewett in 1883. The Knox and Kane Railroad, (K&KRR), ran from 1982-2008 and was headquartered in Marienville, Pennsylvania in the Northwestern area of PA and was a standard gauge RR. It was taken in Marienville, PA in Feb of 2011. I believe them to have been constructed in the early 1980's.Ī view down the turntable to the opened door of 1 stall. 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 caption of the former turntable and 4 bay roundhouse of Knox and Kane Railroad. 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.
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