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History

The Bardstown Branch Railroad was built in the 1850's by the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad to cannect Bardstown with
its main north/south line running from Louisville, KY to
Nashville, TN. It is one of the earliest branches of the

L & N Railread. In 1986 only 20 miles of track remained from
Bardstown to Bardstown Junction where the branch line
intersects with the main line, now awned by CSX Railroad. It
was purchased by R.J.Corman Railroad Corp. as a shortline
railroad and My Old Kentucky Dinner Train began its
excursions in 1988. The dinner train travels approximately
16 miles of the track.

The Depot was built in 1860 and until 1953 served as both a
freight depct and a passenger station. It is constructed
ef native limestone and is the last remaining "dry-laid"
limestone depet in the state of Kentucky. Because of its
histeric significance the depet is listed in the National
Register of Historic Places. After passenger service was
discontinued in 1953 the waiting ream portion of the
building, which extended toward N.Third St.from the end of
the depet, was torn down.

The freight depet is now the waiting ream for My Old Kentucky
Dinner Train and has been left in its original condition as
much as pessible. The wide freight doars remain; the old
freight scale is still built in the floor and continues to
weigh accurately; the ceiling and beams show evidence af two
fires which occurred many years age, one of them caused by a
pet-bellied stave which was used tc heat the depet; the names
ever the bar are these of workers from the past.

The cars of the dinner train are all steel skirted cars built
by the Budd Company in the late 1940's after World War II.
The RJC-007 was built fer the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1947
as a sleeper coach and last ran out of Grand Central Statian
in New York. The RJIC-O11 was built fer the Chesapeake & Ohic
Railroad in 1948 and served as the private car for the
Eiscenhcwer family on the President's funeral train.

The RJC-O21,built in 1948, was used aon the El Capitan train
by the Santa Fe Railroad and has been cutfitted with the mest
up-to-date equipment to serve as our kitchen car. The deisel
electric engines are FF7A units which can be used tc haul
either passenger or freight trains and are commonly called "F

units".

Two ether stations original to the Bardstown Branch remain on
the line and both have been restored. The first to be seen
on the excursion is the Deatsville, Ky. depot located
directly across from the old T.W. Samuels Distillery which
now heuses the Samuels Springs Water Cca., processors of
natural limestone drinking water and distilled water.�?T

The picturesque English-style station at Limestone Springs,
where the train stops before returning to Bardstown, is
reported to have accommedated many wealthy and famous pecple
in its time and provided overnight facilities for passengers
on the secend story. It is now cwned by Jim Beam Distillery
svi rse heen rerenletely refirbhjiched.