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Track gauge. 4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge) 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.
Tombstone Junction was a small, Western-town-themed park located on Kentucky Route 90 in McCreary County, Kentucky near the Cumberland Falls State Resort Park. It began operating in the 1960s and continued uninterrupted until it was heavily damaged by fire in 1989. The park continued with limited operation until it was completely destroyed by a ...
Southern Railway: Kentucky Midland Railroad: IC: 1904 1922 Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad: Kentucky Midland Railway: 1888 1897 Frankfort and Cincinnati Railway: Kentucky Northern Railroad: 1896 1900 N/A Kentucky, Rockcastle and Cumberland Railroad: 1913 N/A Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad: C&O: 1888 1902 Lexington and Big ...
Stearns, Kentucky. / 36.69583°N 84.47694°W / 36.69583; -84.47694. Stearns is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 1,365 at the 2020 census. [ 3] It was founded by Justus Smith Stearns.
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 town where the museum is located was called ...
The Kentucky Railway Museum, now located in New Haven, Kentucky, United States, is a non-profit railroad museum dedicated to educating the public regarding the history and heritage of Kentucky's railroads and the people who built them. Originally created in 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky, the museum is at its third location, in extreme southern ...
On October 7, 1948, the Kentucky and Tennessee Railway (K&T), headquartered in Stearns, Kentucky, purchased No. 4501 for $8,225 and renumbered it as their No. 12 locomotive. [2] [8] No. 12 worked on the K&T hauling coal trains until February 1964, when the K&T purchased three ALCO S-2 diesel locomotives from the Denver and Rio Grande Western ...
The Elkhorn City Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in Elkhorn City, Kentucky. The museum was established in 1990 and is dedicated to educating the public on the history of railroads in Kentucky's Eastern Mountain Coal Fields region. [1] It also documents the history of the local timber and coal industries and local genealogy.