Typical ALCo well balanced appearance. Great lines for such a beast.

1996 eh? Any idea as to how many hours were on the boiler before it was stuffed and mounted?

It was up for its 15 year rebuild. The Fort Wayne Historical Society had a choice of overhauling this engine they had leased from KRM or put there money in the Nickle Plate Berkshire that they actually owned. Obviously they made the choice to dump their money into something they had full rights to.

I just HAVE to get to Kentucky. Not only to see my friend Scott in Lexington, but also to see these historic railroad related wonders.

KRM is definately NOT a place you wanna go. Today was the first time I've been to the museum in nearly 7 years and the first time in a long time I've visited a museum and left actively angry.

Ah. Your other photos have proven that. (Sigh...) It's kinda like seeing the aircraft relics at the Davis Monthhan aircraft "Boneyard" near Tucson, Arizona. Among the oxidizing Aluminum there's plenty of history to see, but little being preserved. The numbers grow less with every salvage job and parts needed. Eventually they'll all end up as beverage cans... Or Razor Blades.

NOTHING is working at this place. I got charged $5 to look at their "museum" display hall housed in their depot and it's just a half finished HO layout and a literal pile of junk stacked up on top of one another with no rhyme or reason to it. The HO layout supposedly runs but I didn't get to see because the little teenage girl hired to run the gift was the ONLY person on the grounds today and she said she didn't have the key to the control cabinet. So I paid $5 to literally see a pile of non working crap.

There's not one thing in their entire collection that's actually just painted and finished. Everything out in the yard is either falling part, rusting away, or a combination of the two.

The excursion train I went out there to film today got cancelled and didn't even run because of some sort of "mechanical failure" that happened yesterday. Again the only person on the whole grounds was the little girl in the gift shop which means no one was there trying to rectify the situation. From the looks of it they didn't run because nobody SHOWED UP instead of a mechanical failure.

I was so pissed by the time I left I'm actually a little bit less hateful towards the Bluegrass Railroad Museum over in Versailles now and I hate them with a passion.

At least this loco is under shelter with some form of protection.

I just read your scathing commentary. Were there any other visitors onsite? It sounds like this place is waning on it's last legs.

Yeah, there were about a dozen couples (older folks and couples with kids) that showed up about a half hour before the departure time and the little teenager from the gift shop was trying to explain to them why the train had been cancelled as I walked out the door.

Couple of them didn't sound happy since they had driven relatively long distances to come out there that day. I'd driven close to two hours myself.

I feel sorry for the little teenager.. It almost sounds like they made no revenue on the day..

They made the $5 I paid to see their crappy display hall.

Same family as the puzzle I'mm currently working on. That would explain why the lines looks familiar.
http://www.simplepastimes.com/pd-pa.....by-sunsout.cfm

This locomotive has been sold off to the Kentucky Steam Heritage group. She has been fully cosmeticly restored, and passed through Midway Kentucky while under tow, an event which I attended. Functional restoration is currently underway.