Bradford Era — A group that had been fighting to save rails along the Knox-Kane Corridor has a new focus: maintenance of the railless trail. In 2015, Mount Jewett to Kinzua Bridge (MJ2KB) Trail Club advocated to save rails that were slated for removal on a rails-to-trails project between Mount Jewett and Kinzua Bridge State Park.

At that time, the club had proposed installing light rail maintenance cars and building a pedestrian trail next to the tracks. It aimed to purchase the corridor and rails, but it was unable to come up with $430,000 to purchase the 3.9-mile section of corridor. Headwaters Charitable Trust purchased the land, and a previous plan to create a railless trail was put into motion. The rails are gone and a trail is under construction. Read More