136 S Main St New Haven , KY , 40051 Phone: 800-272-0152 Website The Kentucky Railway Museum 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, six 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.
Designs are:
1) 'Kentucky Railway Museum New Haven, KY', image of stste,
2) 'Kentucky Railway Museum', Steam engine,
3) 'Kentucky Railway Museum', Diesel engine,
4) 'Train De La Reconnaissance Franaise', Train car.
7/15/2023: Machine is still in the same location and pressing well.
They offer a one and a half hour train ride on the antique train once a day on Saturday. We arrived too late to go on it. CLH TEC 4871 |