1922 ***LAKE ERIE, FRANKLIN & CLARION*** RAILROAD BOND COUPON+VIGNETTE! SCARCE!

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DECEMBER 1922 ***SCARCE*** ~LAKE ERIE, FRANKLIN AND CLARION RAILROAD COMPANY~ (NUMBER 566) .00 "IN GOLD COIN" {TINY 2 7/8"} BOND COUPON WITH "STEAM LOCOMOTIVE" VIGNETTE!
"98" years old with early graphics!   A great piece for Railroadiana collectors!
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Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad
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Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion Railroad Company One Hundred Ton hopper Cars containing Unit Coal for Kings Park State Hospital New York.
LEF&CRRCo 100 Ton Hopper Car LEF 4023 was built in April 1980.
LEF boxcar on the
CRANDIC
at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The
Lake Erie, Franklin, and Clarion Railroad
(
reporting mark
LEF
) was a fifteen mile long short line that ran from a
Conrail
connection at
Summerville, Pennsylvania
, to
Clarion, Pennsylvania
, the county seat of
Clarion County
, and included a short branch from Sutton to Heidrick. The road was incorporated in 1913 as a consolidation of several other railroads, the Pennsylvania Northern, Pennsylvania Southern, and the Pittsburgh, Clarion and Franklin, which itself was formed from the Pittsburgh, Summerville, and Clarion [which began operation in 1904 and was leased to the Pennsylvania Southern in 1910. Length peaked at about 80 miles of track in around 1924. The corporate name was somewhat optimistic: the railroad never reached either Franklin or
Lake Erie
. In the late 20th century, traffic included sand for Clarion's
glass making
plant, glass bottles, lumber, and outbound shipments of coal, some of it in unit trains from the extensive coal deposits around Clarion. Traffic also included brick from the Hanley Brick Plant in Summerville. The line ceased operation in the last decade of the 1900s due to a sharp decline in coal mining in the area. The track was taken up and the roadbed in now a hiking path. One of the railroad's cabooses had been used for several years as a Chamber of Commerce roadside information booth across the highway from the local Wal-Mart, but has been removed and is now serving much the same purpose in the town of Foxburg on the
Allegheny River
, a few miles to the southwest.
The line's yard and engine facility were located in Clarion, just south of U.S. route 322 and behind many of the buildings of
Clarion University
of Pennsylvania, formerly Clarion State Teachers' College. A section house was located at the siding to Hanley Brick, now Glen-Gary in Summerville. Motive power in the line's final years was four
EMD MP15DC
switchers #25-28, which replaced two earlier
EMD SW1500s
#23-24. During the final years when steam locomotives powered LEF&C trains, most of the road's locomotives were 2-8-0's which had been acquired second hand from other railroads.
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