The Johnsonburg, Kane, Warren and Irvine Railroad was a railroad company in Pennsylvania, United States, formed on May 24, 1982, by Sloan Cornell who also owned the Knox and Kane Railroad

Knox and Kane Railroad

The Knox and Kane Railroad was a short-line railroad in Pennsylvania that operated between Knox, in Clarion County, to Kane and then on to Mount Jewett, in McKean County.-Early years:...

. The JKWI was the designated operator of the Irvine, Warren, Kane & Johnsonburg Railroad, that was a partnership of Brock Railroad

Brock Railroad

The Brock Railroad was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Warren Car Company of Warren, PA. The business entity Brock Railroad Company was created with the Pennsylvania Department of State on February 17, 1982....

 (a wholly owned subsidiary of Warren Car Company), Irvine Railroad

Irvine Railroad

The Irvine Railroad was a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Forge Company of Irvine, PA. The business entity Irvine Railroad Company was created with the Pennsylvania Department of State on February 22, 1982....

 (a wholly owned subsidiary of National Forge Company) and Struthers Wells Inter-American Corporation (a subsidiary of Struthers Wells), all three being Pennsylvania corporations, and had acquired from Conrail the following railroad line segments: MP 58.52 to MP 66.7 (Irvine to Warren

Warren, Pennsylvania

Warren is a city in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States, located along the Allegheny River. The population was 9,710 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Warren County. It is home to the headquarters of the Allegheny National Forest and the Cornplanter State Forest...

) and MP 92.5 to MP 111.0 (Kane

Kane, Pennsylvania

Kane is a borough in McKean County, Pennsylvania, east by south of Erie. It was founded in 1863 by Civil War general Thomas L. Kane at an elevated site 2210 feet above sea level. In the early part of the twentieth century, Kane had large glassworks, bottle works, lumber mills, and manufactures of...

 to Johnsonburg

Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania

Johnsonburg is a borough in Elk County, Pennsylvania, northeast of Pittsburgh and south of Buffalo, New York, in a productive farming and lumbering region. Paper mills were once common here, and Domtar still maintains a paper mill there today. In 1910, 4,334 people lived here...

).

Operation of the Irvine to Johnsonburg trackage began on July 16, 1982, while registration of the business entity IWK&J RAILROAD COMPANY with the Pennsylvania Department of State

Pennsylvania Department of State

The Pennsylvania Department of State is a cabinet-level agency in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The department is headed by the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Among the areas of responsibility are:*Campaign finance reporting*Charities...

 followed on October 18, 1982,

The property was sold to Hammermill Paper, which began operations under the Allegheny Railroad

Allegheny Railroad

The Allegheny Railroad was an American railroad company operating in northwestern Pennsylvania.The Allegheny Railroad began operations on September 3, 1985...

 name on September 3, 1985. The Johnsonburg, Kane, Warren & Irvine Railroad Company filed a Certificate of Election to Dissolve on September 10, 1985, and filed Articles of Dissolution on October 3, 1986.

Locomotive Roster

#	Model	Power	Builder	Year	Notes
29	U33B	3300 hp	GE General Electric General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...	1968	ex Conrail Consolidated Rail Corporation The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail , was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. The federal government created it to take over the potentially profitable lines of bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and...
6414	GP9M EMD GP9 An EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division in the United States, and General Motors Diesel in Canada between January, 1954, and August, 1963. US production ended in December, 1959, while an additional thirteen units were built in Canada, including...	1700 hp	EMD	1957	ex Chessie Chessie System Chessie System, Inc. was a holding company that owned the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway , the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad , the Western Maryland Railway , and several smaller carriers. It was incorporated in Virginia on February 26, 1973, and it acquired the C&O on June 15...