Bluegrass Railroad and Museum, Railroad museum in Versailles, Kentucky, United States.
The Bluegrass Railroad and Museum is a railroad museum in Versailles, Kentucky, displaying diesel locomotives and historic rolling stock on an outdoor site. The collection holds around 40 pieces of equipment, many of them still operational and used for excursion trains that run along restored track.
The museum was founded in 1976 by a group of railroad enthusiasts who started gathering equipment from local lines that were closing down. The site in Versailles opened in 1988 and has been running train excursions ever since.
The museum runs regular train rides along old routes that pass through the farming country of central Kentucky, giving a sense of how rail travel once connected rural communities. Passengers ride in restored cars pulled by working diesel locomotives that once operated on these same lines.
The site is mostly outdoors, so sturdy shoes and weather-appropriate clothing make the visit more comfortable, especially when crossing the grounds between exhibits. Train rides run on a seasonal schedule, so checking ahead before planning a visit around an excursion is a good idea.
Young's High Bridge, which the train crosses during excursions, is one of the tallest railroad bridges in the country, spanning the Kentucky River gorge at a considerable height. The same bridge also serves as a bungee jumping site, so passengers on the train may spot jumpers during the crossing.
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