One reason was that freight shipments over the line had declined seriously over the years. In the spring of 2006, the K&K ceased both freight and tourist service. This collection of old and new equipment made for one of the more distinctive tourist train operations in the country, although it was often overlooked because of its remote location. The cars were also notorious for rusting, making maintenance on these cars a constant chore. This type of car had been dubbed ping pong cars because of their tendency to rock and bounce all over, even when new on well maintained track.
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They were called Ping-Pong cars as they had round windows on the ends and being commuter cars going back and forth they resembled a ping pong ball going back and forth across the ping pong table. The coaches used on the Knox & Kane were mostly an old type of Long Island Rail Road commuter cars. Today, the roundhouse is in a considerable amount of disrepair, with three of the four tracks having been removed. There was also a four bay roundhouse built in Marienville. So the K&K built a turn table there, specifically to turn its steam locomotive. In 1991 Jia Was Cosmetically Transformed Into United State Modifications Including Her Centered Bell And Was Renumbered 58. As the B&O never saw a need to turn locomotives at Marienville, there was no wye or turntable in that community. Jia Made Her Breakin Run From between Knox, in Clarion County, to Kane and then on to Mount Jewett, in McKean County Pennsylvania Along With Her Running Mate Ex-Huntington And Broad Top Railroad 2-8-0 38. Jia Arrived In America In 1990 Along With Her Sister Sidney (Sid Chang) A Second SY Built For The Valley Railroad In Essex Connecticut (Now Owned By The Bel-Del Railroad As Susquehanna 142) And Jie A Class JS Mikado For The Boone Scenic And Valley Railroad In Boone Iowa. 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. At 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. 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. 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. After 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). This ended the use of the Shippenville interchange. 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.
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