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Customers ride on vintage 1940s-era dining cars pulled by diesel-electric FP7A locomotives for a 150-minute, 37-mile ride to Limestone Springs and back, while engaging in lunch or dinner. [8] Sights to be seen during the ride include Bernheim Forest and the Jim Beam distillery. [6] [9]
The Bardstown Line became home to My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, which made its inaugural run in 1989. In 1990, R. J. Corman's first Distribution Center was opened in South Union, Kentucky. R. J. Corman Material Sales began in 1994, after the company agreed to begin serving as Conrail's full-service track and rail material distributor.
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A year later, he began operating My Old Kentucky Dinner Train on that line using a car that had been part of the funeral procession for Dwight Eisenhower in 1969. Rick went on to establish six more companies and acquire eight more short lines with over 600 miles of track before his passing in 2013.
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A dinner train is a relatively new type of tourist train service whose main purpose is to allow people to eat dinner while experiencing a relatively short, leisurely round trip train ride. This contrasts with conventional passenger trains, whose main purpose is to transport passengers to some destination as quickly as possible but which also ...
Bardstown features a tourist attraction known as My Old Kentucky Dinner Train. Run along a 20-mile (30 km) stretch of rail purchased from CSX in 1987, guests are served a four-course meal as they make a two-and-a-half-hour round-trip between Bardstown and Limestone Springs. [5] The Kentucky Railway Museum is located in nearby New Haven. [6]
The party was meeting on the eve of its state convention for the first time in eight years since the 2016 presidential election cycle, as the 2020 dinner was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.