Editing Kentucky (section)

===Rails===

{{See also|List of Kentucky railroads}}
[[File:High Bridge in Kentucky.jpg|thumb|[[High Bridge of Kentucky|High Bridge]] over the [[Kentucky River]] was the tallest rail bridge in the world when it was completed in 1877.]]

[[Amtrak]], the national passenger rail system, provides service to [[Ashland, Kentucky|Ashland]], [[South Shore, Kentucky|South Portsmouth]], [[Maysville, Kentucky|Maysville]] and [[Fulton, Kentucky|Fulton]]. The ''[[Cardinal (train)|Cardinal]]'' (trains 50 and 51) is the line that offers Amtrak service to Ashland, South Shore, Maysville and South Portsmouth. The ''[[City of New Orleans (train)|City of New Orleans]]'' (trains 58 and 59) serve Fulton. The [[Northern Kentucky]] area is served by the ''Cardinal'' at [[Cincinnati Union Terminal]]. The terminal is just across the [[Ohio River]] in [[Cincinnati]].

[[Norfolk Southern Railway]] passes through the Central and Southern parts of the Commonwealth, via its Cincinnati, New Orleans, and Texas Pacific (CNO&TP) subsidiary. The line originates in [[Cincinnati]] and terminates 338 miles south in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]].

{{as of|2004}}, there were approximately {{convert|2640|mi}} of railways in Kentucky, with about 65% of those being operated by [[CSX Transportation]]. [[Bituminous coal|Coal]] was by far the most common cargo, accounting for 76% of cargo loaded and 61% of cargo delivered.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aar.org/aboutus/Pages/default.aspx|format=PDF |title=Railroad Service in Kentucky |access-date=May 1, 2007 |publisher=Association of American Railroads |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117104804/https://www.aar.org/aboutus/Pages/default.aspx |archive-date=January 17, 2013}} Also, Norfolk Southern's main north-south line runs through central and southern Kentucky, starting in Cincinnati. Formerly the CNO&TP subsidiary of Southern Railway, it is NS's most profitable line.
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[[Bardstown, Kentucky|Bardstown]] features a [[tourist attraction]] known as ''My Old Kentucky Dinner Train''. Run along a {{convert|20|mi|km|-1|adj=on}} stretch of rail purchased from [[CSX Transportation|CSX]] in 1987, guests are served a four-course meal as they make a two-and-a-half-hour round-trip between Bardstown and Limestone Springs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cincinnati.com/visitorsguide/stories/071100_dinnertrain.html|title=On the Right Track – Kentucky Dinner Train serves up railroad nostalgia |access-date=May 1, 2007 |last=Knight |first=Andy |newspaper=Cincinnati.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070410021419/http://www.cincinnati.com/visitorsguide/stories/071100_dinnertrain.html |archive-date=April 10, 2007}}
</ref> The [[Kentucky Railway Museum]] is located in nearby [[New Haven, Kentucky|New Haven]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kyrail.org/ |title=Kentucky Railway Museum |access-date=May 1, 2007 |archive-date=April 26, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426023631/http://www.kyrail.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Other areas in Kentucky are reclaiming old railways in [[rail trail]] projects. One such project is Louisville's [[Big Four Bridge]]. When the bridge's Indiana approach ramps opened in 2014, completing the pedestrian connection across the Ohio River, the Big Four Bridge [[rail trail]] became the second-longest pedestrian-only bridge in the world.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Courier-Journal|title=Bridges money may be shifted|last=Shafer|first=Sheldon|date=March 5, 2007}}</ref> The longest pedestrian-only bridge is also found in Kentucky{{snd}}the [[Newport Southbank Bridge]], popularly known as the "Purple People Bridge", connecting [[Newport, Kentucky|Newport]] to [[Cincinnati|Cincinnati, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/04/20/loc_purplebridge20.html|title= Meet the Purple People Bridge|access-date= May 1, 2007|last= Crowley|first= Patrick|date= April 23, 2003|newspaper= Cincinnati Enquirer|archive-date= February 20, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210220152134/https://www.cincinnati.com/|url-status= live}}</ref>