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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.
Coordinates: 36.83478°N 84.35799°W. Cumberland Falls Scenic Railroad, #77. 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.
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 ...
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.
Website. barthellcoalcamp.com. Barthell is a former coal town in McCreary County, Kentucky, United States. It was established in 1902 and was the first of 18 mining camps to be built by the Stearns Coal and Lumber Company. It now serves as an open-air history museum, which is open from April through Thanksgiving.
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 Southern Railway's Steam Program was created by Paul Merriman and TVRM, after Merriman purchased the former Southern Railway 4501 in 1964 from the Kentucky & Tennessee Railway in Stearns, Kentucky for $5,000, equal to $49,120 today. By 1966 the 4501 had been restored during a 2-year process, conducted at Lucey Boiler Company in Chattanooga.
Tennessee and Kentucky Railroad: L&N: 1881 1881 Owensboro and Nashville Railway: Tradewater Railway: TRWY 1982 1995 Western Kentucky Railway: Tug River and Kentucky Railroad: N&W: 1913 1936 Norfolk and Western Railway: Versailles and Midway Railway: SOU: 1884 1889 Louisville Southern Railroad: Wasioto and Black Mountain Railroad: L&N: 1908 1915