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chilling tales on the tracks
The Big South Fork’s
National River & Recreation Area’s 8th annual blue heron
are you too
to ride?
7: 00PM
All aboard at Stearns Depot.
There’s no turning back now.
8:00PM
Listen to terrifying tales
9: 00PM
If you survive long enough,
while riding the unforgettable Ghost Train.
arrive at the abandoned coal mine, where exploration can become your worst nightmare... the train’s extreme elevation creates an exclusive vantage point to admire kentucky’s beauty.
stearns depot
Silver Lake
coal mine
2 town ruins
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listen to our experts they are witnesses.
Hear Chilling Tales
The Big South Fork Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in Stearns, Kentucky. The route runs for 16 miles (26 km) through lush countryside in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. There is a stop in the historic coal mining town of Blue Heron, Kentucky which can be toured. There is also a gift shop and snack bar with picnic shelter as well as hiking trails in Heron.
“our s tory tellers
will haunt you ALL NIGHT LONG.”
The railroad is restoring a large steam locomotive from the Union railroad built by ALCO in 1944 and uses diesel locomotives for its excursion trains. The McCreary County Museum (admission included in train ticket) demonstrates life in Kentucky’s company towns during the first half of the century. The line that is used by the BSFSR was originally laid down by the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company, beginning in 1901 in order to move lumber.
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THE TERRIFYING TRUTH
The Big South Fork Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in Stearns, Kentucky. The route runs for 16 miles (26 km) through lush countryside in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. There is a stop in the historic coal mining town of
The Cumberland National Forest (now Daniel Boone National Forest), Stearns Company built the Kentucky & Tennessee Railroad. Shortly after opening up the lumber business, coal was discovered, and the company became Stearns Coal Lumber. The first mine, Barthell, was opened. In 1904, the K&T changed their corporate charter name to the Kentucky & Tennessee Railway Company, in order to finance the extension of the Kentucky/ Tennessee state line just south of Bell Farm.
can you survive
Blue Heron, Kentucky which can be toured. There is also a gift shop and snack bar with picnic shelter as well as hiking trails in Blue Heron. The Big South Fork’s most prominent feature is the river gorge cutting through the softer Mississippian age rock beneath the hard Pennsylvanian capstone of the Cumberland Plateau. Water is the most influential agent of geologic change in the Big South Fork region. Over time water action has left many unique and amazing geologic features.
Arrive at the mine
APPEARS abandoned
on the train the only stop
The Big South Fork’s most prominent feature is the river gorge cutting through the softer Mississippian age rock beneath the hard Pennsylvanian capstone of the Cumberland Plateau. Water is the most influential agent of geologic change in the Big South Fork region. Over time water action has left many unique and amazing geologic features ranging from the river gorge with its magnificent bluffs to the natural arches and unusual hoodoos.
the town is a series of buildings connected both physically and spiritually.
UNEXPLAINABLE EVENTS
Some of the original structures have been replicated as open, metal shells of buildings, referred to as “ghost structures,” on the approximate sites of the original buildings. Structures include a railroad depot, a full-scale model of the coal tipple, a school, and homes. Photographic exhibits and audio programs in the ghost structures tell about various aspects of life in the isolated mining community.
strange things happen here.
Big South Fork. Hoodoos are. Due to the substantial amount of annual rainfall of the region and the action of the Cumberland River and surrounding tributaries the water acts to erode the softer Mississippian rock composed of limestone, shale, and calcareous sandstone from beneath the much harder and erosion resistant capstone composed of Pennsylvanian sandstone.
“Monsters are real, Ghosts are real too, they live inside us , and sometimes... they win.”
most paranormal incidents are witnessed inside the ruins .
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...if there is one.
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