As the age of rail was ending in Northwest Pennsylvania, entrepreneurs and communities tried to keep the B&O Northern Division alive as a railroad, but it was not to be. Instead, the old B&O is finding new life as the region’s newest rail trail. This multi-use, and handicap accessible trail is open for hiking, bicycling, running/jogging, skiing etc. The Rail 66 Country Trail is Clarion County’s part of that trail project. The Knox Kane Rail Trail is a four-county (Clarion, Elk, Forest & McKean) rail trail corridor. When finished, it will start at a place once called Clarion Junction, west of Clarion in the village of Marianne. From there it will roughly parallel Route 66 north through the villages of Lucinda, Snydersburg, Leeper, Crown and Vowinckel to become part of a 74-mile trail to the famous Kinzua Bridge. The Rail 66 Country Trail follows the path of the narrow-gauge Pittsburgh and Western Railroad, built in the late 1800s. Emitt was a railroad conductor for 45 years, starting with Great Northern Railway and ending with BNSF in 2008. That line became the standard-gauge Northern Division of the Baltimore and Ohio, and ran from Pittsburgh to Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y. For most of the 20th Century the B&O shipped coal, lumber, and freight from mines, forests and local glass factories. When these industries declined, the Knox and Kane Railroad acquired the B&O right of way.īeginning in 1982, the Knox and Kane took tourist excursions from Marienville through Kane and Mt. PRESIDENT 180 8897 GENES 181 8845 AROUND 182 8780 STORY 183 8751 PART 184. Jewett to the Kinzua Bridge, one of the highest railroad bridges east of the Mississippi. After a tornado toppled a section of the Kinzua Bridge in 2003, the Knox and Kane ceased operations. The line was purchased by the Kovalchick Corporation and the rails and ties were salvaged.Īl Lander of Lucinda leased four miles of the rail bed property from Kovalchick and paved it through the Lucinda-Snydersburg area for easy hiking, jogging and bicycling. The people of the neighborhood liked the trail and soon a community group formed to support and further develop it.
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