Bluegrass Railroad and Museum
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The Bluegrass Railroad and Museum is a railroad museum and heritage railroad in Versailles, Kentucky, United States.
Operating out of the Woodford County Park, the Railroad offers six mile round excursions through the horse farms of Kentucky.
The railroad uses diesel locomotives, of which it has seven. It also has about 40 pieces of rolling stock, about half stored away from the museum (some for sale).
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The museum was founded in 1976 by some members of the Bluegrass Railroad Club, a model railroad group. It began to acquire equipment from local railroads, initially storing the equipment in the old L&N RR's Lexington yard which is now part of the parking lot for Rupp Arena. The equipment was moved to the Bluegrass Army Depot grounds in Fayette.
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In 1987-1988 five and a half miles of railroad line from Versailles, KY to the Kentucky River and nine and a half acres of land in Woodford County Park just outside of Versailles were acquired to begin the process of creating a museum site and train ride.
The rail line was originally built by the Louisville Southern Railroad in the 1880s. For a brief time it was acquired by the Monon Railroad. Later it became part of the Southern Railway and later the Norfolk Southern Railroad. The line from the Kentucky River to Lawrenceburg, KY is still owned by Norfolk Southern. The line from Versailles to Lexington has been sold first to the Lexington & Ohio and now to the R.J. Corman Railroad system.
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