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| Kentucky Steam Heritage posted
Kentucky Steam to Partner With Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects in Creating Kentucky Rail Heritage Center
For Immediate Release
July 30th, 2018 - Lexington, Kentucky
The Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation (KSHC), a 501(c)(3) public charity announced Monday that they will be collaborating with Lexington-based Sherman Carter Barnhart Architects (SCB) in creating the long-term vision for the Kentucky Rail Heritage Center.
The Kentucky Rail Heritage Center project was announced in May, when KSHC unveiled a partnership with CSX Transportation to purchase a large tract of decommissioned ex-L&N rail yard in Ravenna, Kentucky for economic development.
The Rail Heritage Center will be a living restoration shop, showcasing the rehab and maintenance of historic steam locomotives. The sprawling campus will creatively integrate a rail-based tourist attraction featuring train excursions with recreational space, technical skills training component and a regional community center complete with restaurants, shops, and lodging.
Chris Campbell, KSHC President, looks forward to the partnership with the highly-acclaimed Architectural firm.
“Sherman Carter Barnhart is the perfect fit for helping us craft the long-term vision for this region-changing economic development project,” he said in a statement Monday. “We are hoping to create a progressive environment while utilizing design components that harken to the region’s industrial past. The goal is to produce a modern campus that’s timeless as well as distinctly Appalachian. SCB’s body of work makes them a perfect fit for this exciting endeavor.”
Sherman Carter Barnhart is based in Lexington with offices in Louisville and Paducah. They have been designing award-winning projects for civic, educational, institutional, and private clients throughout the region since they opened in 1979. They have earned a reputation for design sensitivity to both the site and project context by creating buildings tailored to their surroundings and function, yet sensitive to the environment. The firm has won over 120 design awards, including the Kentucky Society of Architects Distinguished Firm Award, and their work has been published in numerous trade and professional journals.
Newby Walters, Business Development Director for SCB, provided encouraging words for the partnership.
“Sherman Carter Barnhart is proud to be working with KSHC on this exciting project which we all hope will spur economic development in this region. We are always interested in designing projects that will showcase the history of Kentucky and this rail-based campus, showcasing historic steam locomotives, will be an exciting project to work on with KSHC and CSX. We look forward to beginning our collaboration.”
Initial renderings and site plans will be developed over the next few months. More information will be published when available.
For more information on the project, contact KSHC President Chris Campbell at chris@kentuckysteam.org
Visit https://www.scbarchitects.com/ to learn more about Sherman Carter Barnhart.
T.J. Mahan We're trying to be diverse, more than a RR museum, a hodge podge of activities. One of our tenets is to not turn into a boneyard for rust. Only have what we can use and maintain. |
I saved a satellite image because there should be significant changes to this property.
It still has a footprint of part of the roundhouse.
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| Fort Boonesborough State Park posted (BridgeHunter) It has recently been brought to our attention that the railroad bridge in a couple of the previous posts was not actually the first but the second railroad bridge across the Kentucky River at Ford, KY. Today’s Throwback Thursday photo shows the first bridge after it was moved upriver from Ford and repurposed as a pedestrian walk bridge at Ravenna, KY. For more details on the sawmill boom town of Ford please check out some of our previous posts. This town is located just about a mile upstream on the Kentucky River from the State Park. [This truss was part of the 1883 bridge at Ford, KY. The second bridge was built in 1907. [Ford Bridges]] |
The initial purpose for building a steam locomotive restoration shop was to give the C&O 2716 the TLC (Tender Loving Care) that it needed. Trains Magazine, Aug 2018, p60, reports that the C&O 2716 is currently stored at Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, KY (201+ photos). A Flickr album of the restoration.
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But in the meantime, they have used their new Ravenna location to save NKP 587.
Like the Yacht Club in Port Huron, MI, it seems that Nobelsville, IN has their elitists that don't want ugly industrial stuff in their town. I've been seeing postings for a couple of years about them kicking the Indiana Transportation Museum out of town. I have not been following it closely because it is too depressing. A couple of years ago the elitists stopped the state fair specials that would run passenger trains to the fair grounds during the state fair. ITM would carry 10,000 people and earn money to help fund their operation.
Knoblesville refused to renew ITM's lease because they wanted a trail, and the judge gave ITM 2 weeks to get their "junk" out of Forest Park. A lot of ITM's railroad cars were wrecked in place and hauled away as trash. Fortunately, the Kentucky Steam Heritage people offered this new facility to restore ITM's NKP 587 steam locomotive. It took 7 truck loads, but they were able to get the steam locomotive and its tender moved to Ravenna. ITM itself plans to relocate to Logansport, IN.
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But in the meantime, they have used their new Ravenna location to save NKP 587.
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| By Jeremy C. Schultz - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Nickel Plate Road 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive #587 in the restoration shops at the ITM. |
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Welcome to Kentucky, 587!
Please Consider a donation to Kentucky Steam Heritage: https://bit.ly/2Kvljp9
Donations will immediately fund our restoration shop, the Kentucky Rail Heritage Center as well as to help cover costs of the 587 move.
This shop will eventually be an epicenter for steam locomotive restorations...and unexpectedly, its first tenant will be NKP 587 - rather than the locomotive we have leased from The Kentucky Railway Museum, C&O 2716. 2716 will be moved once the shop is ready for rail transport.
In this shot, 587 parades through the streets of beautiful Irvine, Kentucky in Estill County, just down the street from Ravenna.
Read more about this unexpected turn of events at our news pagehttps://bit.ly/2LgIaFS
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Kentucky Steam Heritage Corp. posted two photos with the comment:
For the first time in our organization’s history, we have a steam locomotive under roof!
After many hours of volunteer work, we have prepared the shop for indoor storage of Nickel Plate Road 587. The engine has been stored outdoors for the past several weeks after we moved her from her former home in Noblesville, Indiana.
KSHC has contracted to restore the locomotive to operation for Indiana Transportation Museum for eventual use back in Indiana.
Work will commence on the engine as capital becomes available through ITM and their fundraising partners’ efforts.
Now...how about a stablemate🤔
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Some details concerning the vacate order and the move.
C&O 2716 arrived a year ago today. I think "today" was July 29, 2020.
CSX is evidently teaching NS that donations can be good PR. "NS 6162, a 3,000-horsepower SD40-2 locomotive, was built in May of 1978 by General Motors, Electro-Motive Division (EMD) in LaGrange, Illinois, for the Norfolk and Western Railway. It performed duty all over the railroad, predominantly hauling coal out of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky....Norfolk Southern 6162 joins the KSHC roster alongside CSX 1100, a former-CSX and L&N SW-1500 switching locomotive, and R.J. Corman 2008, a Chinese-built steam engine, given the moniker “Old Smokey.” Both engines were donated to KSHC by their respective owners within the past year. The organization also rosters Nickel Plate Road 2-8-2 steam locomotive number 587 which is on indefinite loan by the Indiana Transportation Museum." [WTVQ]
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