Museum
The L&N depot currently serves as the home for The Historic Railpark and Train Museum, with a two-story museum in the old colored waiting room, and special events venue space in the original white waiting room. Museum docents provide behind the scenes guided tours of the railcars, including several very rare railroad equipment. Current vintage cars on site include:
- L&N #796 locomotive - E8A replication the 4 locomotives ordered by the L&N from General Motors
- L&N #1107 Railway Post Office car - one of only two remaining L&N RPOs and one of only four complete RPOs in the US
- "Duncan Hines" Dining Car - originally a Southern Pacific dining car but renamed for the original L&N dining car
- L&N "Towering Pine" Pullman Sleeper - one of only two remaining of the L&N's Pine sleeper series
- L&N #353 Office Car - built in 1911 and the oldest remaining intact L&N equipment
- Hospital Car #89456 - one of only four remaining of the original 200 commissioned by the US Army in 1942
- L&N #109 - pre-1911, one of only five known 3-section Jim Crow segregation cars; operated by the Glasgow Railway Company of Glasgow, KY
- L&N #6497 - formerly a Chessie System caboose
The museum is home to the award winning sHOw Modular Model Railroad Club permanent model railroad exhibit. It also hosts the two-day "Festival of Trains" in first weekend in December.
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