The Elkhorn City Railroad Museum is a railroad museum

Railway museum

A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives , railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment.See List of railway museums...

 located in Elkhorn City

Elkhorn City, Kentucky

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,060 people, 437 households, and 295 families residing in the city. The population density was 525.5 people per square mile . There were 506 housing units at an average density of 250.8 per square mile...

, Kentucky

Kentucky

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, United States

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. The museum was established in 1990 and is dedicated to educating the public on the history of railroads in Kentucky's Eastern Mountain Coal Fields

Eastern Mountain Coal Fields

The Eastern Mountain Coal Fields is part of the Central Appalachian bituminous coal field, covering all or parts of 30 Kentucky counties and adjoining areas in Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee. It covers an area from the Allegheny Mountains in the east across the Cumberland Plateau and...

 region. It is managed by the Elkhorn City Heritage Council.

More than 1,000 pieces of railroad memorabilia are on display, including two cabooses, velocipedes

Handcar

A handcar is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases...

, motor cars, antique uniforms and equipment.

The Elkhorn City Railroad Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday (10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) and Sunday (Noon to 4:00 p.m.) eastern time

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. It is also closed from December through February.