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 K&K is now abandoned and the ex-WM GP9 has been scrapped.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 southbound K&K train crosses a wooden trestle near Kane. This Illinois Central schemed Fairmont MT19-m sits in a light rain at the former Knox and Kane RR Marienville Station waiting for tomorrow's run to Kane and back. This A6-F rail car is crossing the last of 13 crossings on this road in the Allegheny National Forest as the rail line snakes back and forth across Watson Farm Rd. The old Knox and Kane water tank leans in to get a better look at this Bellefonte Central Railroad schemed Fairmont Rail Car as it is dwarfed by the old giant at Russell City. This old girl once carried coal trains of the mighty ERIE until the mid '60s, then resumed by carrying tourists in 1987 with the Knox and Kane RR until the bridge was closed i. This old girl once carried coal trains of the mighty ERIE until the mid '60s, then resumed by carrying tourists in 1987 with the Knox and Kane RR until the bridge was c. This photo was shot through the chain-link safety fence that some people f. Once mighty and strong, the Kinzua Bridge is now a fallen pile of steel and wood compliments of an EF-1 tornado in 2003. The last train to my knowledge over this bridge was an excursion special from Marienville to my hometown of Knox in 1993 powered by S6 #44, with. The 21 degree Paint Creek Bridge at Bryners Mill. Location: Shippenville, Pennsylvania, USA Her great-grandfather was killed on when his passenger train, B&O predecessor Pittsburg and Western No. Location: Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, USAĪ lady from AR contacted me to inquire on some information about this bridge.
The Knox & Kane Railroad Excursion train over the Kinzua Viaduct in June of 1992. 44 follows the Knox & Kane's steam engine trips to provide assistance, if needed.Įarly morning Sunshine shines down on the Kinzua skywalk some 12 years after being hit by a F1 tornado. 58 was inside the engine house when vandals set fire to the structure on M. 58 leads a tourist train through Allegheny National Forest near Marienville, Pa.
( more)Ī Knox and Kane steam tourist train makes its way through Allegheny National Forest near Marienville, Pa. The Viaduct, once known as the longest and tallest railroad structure at 2,053 feet long and 301 feet high, was partially destroyed b. On a October morning the fall foliage colors start to come in.
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