Kentucky Railway Museum
Kentucky Railway Museum is a museum in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 141 m. Rohan Knob stands 334 m to the east-northeast, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is New Haven Municipal Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Old Kentucky Turnpike runs past it.
The story
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. 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.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1954.
Wikidata Q6392331, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the Old Kentucky Turnpike
- On the Lincoln Heritage Scenic Highway, National
- 17.6 mi off the US 68 Scenic Byway
- 25.4 mi off the Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook Trail · 4 mi
- Overlook Landing - Pathway of a President · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Strang Knob: 1.1 mi
- Vineyard Knob: 2.5 mi
- Blue Gap Knob: 2.6 mi
- Tent Knob: 2.9 mi
- Forty-Acre Knob: 3.3 mi
- New Haven Municipal Park: 0.4 mi
- Statues: 3.0 mi
- McDougal Lake Park: 8.8 mi
- Creekfront Park: 9.9 mi
- Raywick Park: 11.1 mi
- The Lincoln Museum: 9.9 mi
- Heritage Center: 10.6 mi
- Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History/Bardstown Historical Museum: 12.6 mi
- Women's Civil War Museum: 12.8 mi
- Bardstown Civil War Museum: 12.8 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 9.9 mi
- Tank: 10.3 mi
- Memorial Building: 11.7 mi
- Sympson Lake: 11.9 mi
- Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral: 12.5 mi
- Willett Distillery: 11.4 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Birthplace: 11.7 mi
- Bourbon Heritage Center: 11.7 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Birth Cabin: 11.7 mi
- Site of the Boundary Oak: 11.8 mi
- Saint Joseph Statue: 3.4 mi
- The Boy Lincoln: 9.9 mi
- Ten Deere: 24.2 mi
- Evan Williams Distillerie: 11.7 mi
- Sinking Spring: 11.8 mi
- Distillerie Four Roses: 18.3 mi
- Potlick Point: 13.7 mi
- Cedar Point: 22.9 mi
- Bell Cliff: 24.9 mi
- Vernon Douglas State Nature Preserve: 7.7 mi
- Bernheim Forest and Arboretum: 18.4 mi
- Bullitt County Welcome Center: 20.7 mi
- Brush Creek Church Falls: 21.7 mi
- Native Plants Garden: 23.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.7 miles of Kentucky Railway Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rohan Knob | ENE 76° | 334 m | 8.1 mi |
| Shingle Knob | SE 132° | 304 m | 19.9 mi |
| Bald Knob | ESE 106° | 299 m | 8.9 mi |
| Akin Knob | SSW 194° | 296 m | 20.8 mi |
| Watson Knob | NE 53° | 295 m | 4.3 mi |
| Flag Knob | ESE 105° | 295 m | 8.8 mi |
| Dawson Knob | NNW 330° | 295 m | 21.1 mi |
| Forty-Acre Knob | ENE 61° | 294 m | 3.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:47 | 19:20 | 19:54 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 20:29 | 21:08 |
| September equinox | 07:31 | 19:06 | 19:41 |
| December solstice | 07:55 | 16:47 | 17:28 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 35 | 39 | 47 | 57 | 65 | 73 | 76 | 75 | 69 | 58 | 47 | 38 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hodgenville Lincoln P, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/3298033536
Day trips start here
- Bardstown · 13 mi
- Shepherdsville · 24 mi
- Mount Washington · 27 mi
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