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Cedar Brook Viaduct

Cedar Brook Viaduct

The Cedar Brook Viaduct carried the Louisville Southern Railway over a branch of Cedar Brook in Tyrone, Kentucky.


Originally incorporated as the Louisville, Harrodsburg & Virginia Railroad in 1868, it was reorganized as the Louisville Southern Railway (LS), with construction commencing on a route between Louisville and Harrodsburg in 1884.

In 1888, the LS began construction of the Lexington to Lawrenceburg Division, a spur from Lawrenceburg to Lexington via Versailles, 2 which involved the erection of a bridge across a branch of Cedar Brook at Tyrone in 1889.

Although the LS had high hopes for traffic on the Lexington to Lawrenceburg Division, passenger revenues dwindled with the advent and rise of the automobile leading to the termination of passenger operations on December 27, 1937. 1 Freight traffic, while never significant, remained steady until a derailment at the Tyrone Power Station led to the spur’s closure in 1979. 2 A runaway locomotive on the steep spur destroyed several coal cars.

The LS, which was incorporated into the Southern Railway in 1892, became a part of the Norfolk Southern (NS) in 1980. With few customers remaining along the NS’s Lawrenceburg Division and with maintenance costs mounting on the aging Kentucky River bridge, the line between Lawrenceburg and Versailles was mothballed in November 1985. 1 Tracks between Lawrenceburg and Young’s High Bridge were later removed.

Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct
Cedar Brook Viaduct

Information

  • State: Kentucky
  • Route: Louisville Southern Railway
  • Type: Girder or Beam
  • Status: Abandoned / Closed
  • Total Length: 667 feet


Sources

  1. Powell, Tim. “Young’s High Bridge, Tyrone, Kentucky.” WorldTimZone. 2006.
  2. “Track Rehabilitation.” Bluegrass Railroad Museum. 18 Sept. 2007.

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