Once I finished reading the morning paper, MRS Bunkermeister and I visited the Railpark Train Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
The museum is located in and around the former L&N Railroad terminal. Louisville and Nashville Railroad that is.
The view from the cab for the engineer.
And the engineers set and throttle control. They had a number of very nice exhibits inside the building and a small passenger train outside. We got to take a tour of the train.
They also had this old caboose, sort of the office for freight trains.
They also have a hospital train car that they intend to restore.
They also have a train layout with windows that look out to the real trains on the tracks next to the museum. Real working trains also pass by on another set of rails next to the trains on display.
The layout represents Bowling Green, Kentucky in the 1960's ish. Sort of.
It's HO scale and all it needs are a couple hundred military vehicles and a few thousand troops and it would be perfect!
2 comments:
Mike:
That's a pretty cool museum they have there.
Railfanning was one of my hobbies many moons ago. And I always loved model trains.
As far as adding TROOPS to the layouts...is it anywhere near FORT KNOX?
(that could work, and very well).
Carry on.
Bowling Green is closer to Ft. Campbell, KY in the southwest of Kentucky. Ft. Knox is about 100 miles north-east.
Bunkermeister
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