Kentucky Railway Museum

Kentucky Railway Museum
Entrance to the museum facility
Kentucky Railway Museum is located in Kentucky
Kentucky Railway Museum
Location within Kentucky
Kentucky Railway Museum is located in the United States
Kentucky Railway Museum
Kentucky Railway Museum (the United States)
Established1954
LocationNew Haven, Kentucky, United States
Coordinates37°39′18″N 85°35′28″W / 37.655°N 85.591°W / 37.655; -85.591
TypeRailroad
Websitehttp://www.kyrail.org/

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.[1]

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.

  1. ^ Kleber p.478