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Currently the station is part of the complex for the My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, named for the My Old Kentucky Home State Park, where Stephen Foster allegedly got the inspiration for his song My Old Kentucky Home. Customers ride on vintage 1940s-era dining cars pulled by diesel-electric FP7A locomotives for a 150-minute, 37-mile ride to ...
In 1999 the Kentucky Railway Museum was given a grant by CSX Transportation to start a traveling exhibit. [10] There is one other heritage railroad in Nelson County: My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, which is based at the Old Louisville and Nashville Station in Bardstown, Kentucky.
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.
Bardstown is a home rule-class city [5] in Nelson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 13,567 in the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Nelson County. [6] Bardstown is named for the pioneering Bard brothers. David Bard obtained a 1,000-acre (400 ha) land grant in 1785 in what was then Jefferson County, Virginia.
These Southern railroads offer holiday fun for the whole family.
Kentucky Central Railroad: L&N: 1861 1887 Kentucky Central Railway: Kentucky Central Railway: L&N: 1887 1891 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Kentucky Highlands Railroad: L&N: 1907 1915 Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Company: SOU: 1880 1900 Kentucky and Indiana Bridge and Railroad Company: Kentucky and Indiana ...
A failed wheel bearing on a train car caused a derailment that sparked a chemical fire and forced residents of a small town in Kentucky out of their homes for just over a day, including most of ...
Bardstown: 8: Confederate Monument of Bardstown: Confederate Monument of Bardstown: July 17, 1997 : North Bardstown Cemetery, 0.3 miles south of the junction of U.S. Routes 31E/150 and KY-245: Bardstown: 9