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Kentucky Transportation History

  • Steamboat fever

  • Sidewheelers and sternwheelers are introduced

  • KY has roughly 596 miles of railway

  • Eastern Kentucky Railway begins

  • Omnibuses

  • Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Company is founded

  • Mule car

  • Electric streetcar

  • KWMC creats automobile body

  • Bowman Field begins

  • Motor bus

  • Bluegrass airport runs its first operating jet

  • Trolley bus