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The Big South Fork Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in Stearns, Kentucky. The route runs for 16 miles (26 km) through lush countryside in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. There is a stop in the historic coal mining town of Blue Heron, Kentucky which can be toured. There is also a gift shop and snack bar with picnic ...
The Kentucky & Tennessee Railway in nearby Stearns, KY bought the track and a scrap company bought the old converted wooden cabooses. This resulted in the park's final fire. During the scrapping process for the wooden coaches, the bodies of the cars were accidentally set on fire with a cutting torch, with the fire quickly getting out of hand.
Kentucky Route 92 passes through the center of Stearns and leads west 29 miles (47 km) to Monticello. Eastbound KY 92 joins US 27 south to Pine Knot, then turns east to lead to Williamsburg . According to the United States Census Bureau , the Stearns CDP has a total area of 4.05 square miles (10.5 km 2 ), of which 0.03 square miles (0.08 km 2 ...
A scenic railroad or scenic railway is a train service operating leisure tours of sights such as mountain scenery and foliage tours. Scenic railroads United States ...
Constructed in 1907, the McCreary County Museum is housed in the former Stearns Coal and Lumber Company corporate headquarters in Stearns, Kentucky.The building served as the company's office headquarters in the Southern United States, and maintains the company president's office as an exhibit.
The survey ranks Kentucky’s Mountain Parkway as the sixth most feared in the country, just behind Nevada’s U.S. Route 50, a desert highway known as the loneliest road in America.
The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (KSHCO) is a nonprofit organization based on the border between Irvine and Ravenna, Kentucky. The organization mainly focuses on the restoration of Chesapeake and Ohio K-4 2-8-4 steam locomotive No. 2716 along with other vintage railroad equipment.
One of the nation’s largest railroad carriers was negligent in a train derailment in Kentucky that forced nearby residents out of their homes the day before Thanksgiving, a federal lawsuit ...