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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.
Visitors riding “Rail Explorers” pedal over train tracks on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023 at the Bluegrass Scenic Railroad and Museum in Versailles, Ky.
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]
Commuters may think of a train ride as a dull, bare-bones trek on the Long Island Railroad or even an affordable Amtrak trip. Either of these modes of transportation will get you where you're ...
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 ...
On a frosty day in January, I boarded an overnight train in Denver for a 15-hour ride to Salt Lake City. The train was cozy and social, and the views were striking and diverse. Ride along with me.