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Today we
can travel along Routes 1, 207, and 773 through Carter, Greenup, and Lawerance counties in Eastern Kentucky. Much
has changed since both the Eastern Kentucky Railway and East Kentucky Southern Railway finished their course through our
beautiful hills and valleys. Still remaining along it's abandoned path are tangible features of the Railway. I will be
working on a web link page with up-to-date photos and descriptions that can be viewed by a click of your mouse. On each
page of this website you will read the history of an area and see pictures from that time. On that same page will be
a link to what it looks like today!
Driving along the old path of the Eastern Kentucky Railway a person can find a number of
items that directly or indirectly was part of the everyday operation of the railway. I often think of those men
of men that powered their way through that virgin terrain bringing about tunnels and railroad beds. Much of the railroad
bed still holds up the weight of vehicles traveling between Webbville, Grayson, and Greenup over much of Route 1, 773, and
some of 207. It is that same terrian through which a train passed and our people just a century before called their E.K. Railway.
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