My Old Kentucky Dinner Train Route
Enjoy a beautiful two-hour train ride through the Kentucky countryside while indulging in a gourmet three-course lunch with seafood, meat, and vegetarian options. The dinner train covers a distance of just over 18 miles between Bardstown and Limestone Springs Junction, Kentucky (37-mile round trip) as it winds its way along a former Louisville & Nashville branch line. Trips normally range in length from 2.5 to 3 hours.
During your two and a half-hour excursion through the beautiful Kentucky countryside you will be served a delicious meal prepared while in route, by our executive chef in our kitchen car. My Old Kentucky Dinner Train operates year-round on varied schedules and travels North through Bernheim Forest and the Jim Beam distillery property to Limestone Springs and back. It runs what I believe is an old lumber route.
It goes through some protected woodland areas and by several old distillery operations. Very pretty especially in spring and fall. It is a dedicated railroad that ends at the train station in Bardstown.
Very scenic ride with excellent service and meal. The Kentucky Dinner train travels 17.5 miles down the R. J.
Corman Bardstown Line and stops at Limestone Springs Junction. There, the double engines disconnect from one end and reattach at the other end to pull the train back to Bardstown, where the journey started. The My Old Kentucky Dinner Train operates dinner and lunch excursion trains on the 20 mile R.J.
Corman Bardstown Line. R. J.
Corman Railroad Company purchased the twenty-mile branch from CSX Transportation in 1987 and developed the Dinner Train which had its inaugural run in 1988. In promoting goodwill and community support by R. J.
Corman Railroad Group, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train operates in 1940s dining cars on 16 miles of the former Louisville & Nashville track between Bardstown and Limestone Springs. With a variety of themed dinner excursions, including family-friendly options, we decided to take the classic dinner ride a 2.5-hour journey through the Kentucky countryside. Keep reading below for our full insights about the experience.
The meal is served during a 37-mile round trip journey through Kentuckys scenic countryside, where visitors will see views of Jim Beam distillery, Jesse James safe house and the Jackson Hollow Trestle in the Bernheim Forest.
