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The Dawkins Line Rail Trail is an 18-mile (29.0 km) rail trail in Johnson and Magoffin Counties in Kentucky. The multi-use trail, suitable for biking, walking, and horseback riding, occupies an abandoned rail corridor that was constructed in the early 20th century for the Dawkins Lumber Company. [1] It is the longest rail trail in Kentucky.
1867–1933. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Eastern Kentucky Railway ( reporting mark EK) was a railroad in northeastern Kentucky, United States. It served mainly mine traffic, running north from Webbville through Grayson to Riverton (now part of Greenup) on the Ohio River and Chesapeake and Ohio ...
4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) The Monon Railroad ( reporting mark MON ), also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway ( reporting mark CIL) from 1897 to 1971, was an American railroad that operated almost entirely within the state of Indiana. The Monon was merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1971, and much ...
Length. 40.8 mi (65.7 km) The Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad is a defunct shortline railroad based in Kentucky. Despite its name, it had no connections with Cincinnati, Ohio. [1] The Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad ran between Frankfort, Kentucky, and Paris, Kentucky, with a major stop in Georgetown, Kentucky; a distance of 40 miles (64 km).
Length. 10,396 miles (16,731 kilometers) The Louisville and Nashville Railroad ( reporting mark LN ), commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States . Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the great success stories of American ...
1956 - The movie "Raintree County" is filmed using the Lebanon Branch for railroad scenes, the Baltimore & Ohio's William Mason is used in the movie. 1958 - Final passenger train run on the Lebanon Branch. 1979 - Final freight train run to Greensburg. The line between Campbellsville and Greensburg is abandoned afterwards.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway. Chicago, Memphis and Gulf Railroad. Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans Railroad. Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad. Clinchfield Northern Railway of Kentucky.
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 ...