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Chesapeake and Ohio K-4 2-8-4 "Kanawha" No. 2716.It was built by Alco in 1943, and it spent seventeen years on the C&O pulling heavy freight trains until it was removed from the C&O's active list in 1956, and the railroad donated the locomotive to the Kentucky Railway Museum three years later.
Donated to the Kentucky Railway Museum of New Haven, Kentucky in 1959, No. 2716 has been restored to operation in excursion service twice since its retirement from the C&O, first in 1981 for the Southern Railway's steam program until 1982, and again in 1996 for a few brief excursions for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (FWRHS) in New ...
Fun with the Family Kentucky, 2nd: Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids. Globe Pequot. ISBN 0-7627-3490-6. Hay, Melba Porter (2002). Roadside History: A Guide to Kentucky Highway Markers. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-916968-29-4. Herr, Kincaid A. (2000). The Louisville & Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963. University Press of Kentucky.
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (For NKP 765 excursion trips, future) French Lick Scenic Railway; Hesston Steam Museum (For Hesston and Galena Creek excursions) Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum; Indiana Railway Museum; National New York Central Railroad Museum; Ohio River Scenic Railway; Whitewater Valley Railroad; Nickel Plate Express
National Underground Railroad Museum: Maysville: Mason: Northern Kentucky: Historic house: website, located in the Bierbower House, a safe house for the Underground Railroad [21] Northeastern Kentucky Museum: Olive Hill: Carter: Kentucky's Appalachians: Local history [22] NKU Museum of Anthropology: Highland Heights: Campbell: Northern Kentucky ...
The Wooster-Wayne Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a free program on Ohio and the Underground Railroad at the Orrville Public Library 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11.
Veterans Day Ceremony, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Tower Park, 900 S. Fort Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas. Ceremony at the Charters of Freedom in Tower Park, followed by refreshments across the street at Mess Hall ...
The museum owns and maintains a collection of 80 historic railroad equipment located on a 4-acre (16,000 m 2) site. [1] The museum was founded in 1975 when a club of local railroad enthusiasts decided to run passenger cars on Amtrak trains. Several local members purchased cars for this goal.