- Mount Broderick Pullman Car
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MT. BRODERICK Pullman Lounge-Obs-Sleeping Car
Location: 136 S. Main St., New Haven, Kentucky Coordinates: 37°39′22″N 85°35′34″W / 37.65611°N 85.59278°WCoordinates: 37°39′22″N 85°35′34″W / 37.65611°N 85.59278°W Built: 1926 Architect: Pullman Company, Chicago, IL Architectural style: Railroad Car Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 97001345
[1]Added to NRHP: November 18, 1997 The Mt. Broderick Pullman Car is a historic railcar on the National Register of Historic Places, currently at the Kentucky Railway Museum at New Haven, Kentucky, in southernmost Nelson County, Kentucky. It has been described as a "four-star hotel" on rails.[2]
Mt. Broderick was built in two months in late 1926 at the Pullman factory in Chicago, Illinois. It had ten sections, holding a maximum of fifty-two passengers. It weighed 93 tons, due in part to its poured concrete floor; a feature unique to the Mt. Broderick. Passengers enjoyed the solarium lounge at its rear, as well as its buffet area. Polished brass fixtures were in the restroom area. Modifications to the car in 1935 included redoing the solarium, and replacing its crude blown air onto ice method of cooling to a then-modern air conditioning system.[3] It ran the "Southland" Route of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in the 1940s and 1950s; Atlanta, Chicago, Cincinnati, Fort Wayne, and St. Louis were regular stops of the route.[4]
The Kentucky Railway Museum purchased the Mt. Broderick from the Pullman Company in 1958. It replaced the paint and carpet of the car with paint and carpet from the Pullman company, to keep it looking as it did during its active days. The car was also restored in late 1997.[5]
The Mt. Broderick Pullman Car is one of four artifacts at the Kentucky Railway Museum on the National Register of Historic Places. The others are the Louisville and Nashville Steam Locomotive No. 152, the Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665, and the Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car.
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Parrent p.7-1
- ^ Parrent p.7-1, 8-2
- ^ Parrent p.8-2
- ^ Parrent p.7-2
- Parrent, Jonathan V. (July 1997). Mt. Broderick Pullman Car NRHP Nomination Form. Murray State University.
History of Railroads in Kentucky Companies Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad · Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Individuals Museums Big South Fork Scenic Railway · Bluegrass Railroad and Museum · Elkhorn City Railroad Museum · The Historic Railpark and Train Museum · Kentucky Railway Museum · Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati
Stations Ashland Coal and Iron Railroad Office · Ashland Coal and Iron Railroad Store · Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Passenger and Baggage Depots · Henderson, Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot · Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot · Illinois Central Railroad Station and Freight Depot · Louisville and Nashville Railroad Depot · Louisville and Nashville Railroad Passenger Depot · Louisville, Henderson, and St. Louis Railroad Depot · Old L & N Station · Paris Railroad Depot · Shelbyville L & N Railroad Depot · Stanford L&N Railroad Depot · Union Station (Louisville) · Union Station (Owensboro)
Vehicles Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car · L & N Steam Locomotive No. 152 · Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665 · Mt. Broderick Pullman Car
Other Barren River L & N Railroad Bridge · Big Four Bridge · Cincinnati Southern Railroad Culvert--CSRR · High Bridge of Kentucky · Lexington Extension of the Louisville Southern Railroad · Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building · Mitchellsburg Louisville and Nashville Railroad Culvert · Russell Railroad YMCA · Tank Pond Railroad Underpass
Categories:- Louisville and Nashville Railroad
- National Register of Historic Places in New Haven, Kentucky
- Pullman Company
- National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
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