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Kentucky Railway Museum

About Kentucky Railway Museum

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 Nelson County. It is one of the oldest railroad stations in the United States.

The museum owns four steam locomotives, twelve diesel locomotives and over a hundred pieces of rolling stock. Four of the pieces are separately on the National Register of Historic Places: the Louisville and Nashville Steam Locomotive No. 152, the Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665, the Mt. Broderick Pullman Lounge-Obs-Sleeping Car, and the Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car.

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Founded
1954

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  6. L&N REA Express Car06L&N REA Express CarChris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 13 miles of Kentucky Railway Museum; the closest, Cross and Crucifix Museum of Louisville Ky, is about 9.7 miles away.