There was a fire in the Bluegrass Railroad Museum's depot building last night, Nov. 2nd. Museum is located in Versailles, KY about a twenty minute drive from Lexington. Damage to the upper floor which contained the museum's archives. Extent of damage not yet known.

Preliminary Reports:
Cause: Electrical
Damage: $150,000 structural damage
Contents: Most contents including archives and computers saved by quick action on the part of firefighters. Some furniture, the carpeting, and walls will have to be replaced inside the building. Mostly on the second story.

It appears their official museum website is down; all I get is a black screen.

http://www.bgrm.org/

Website appears to be back up. Problem was probably due to the fact that all of the museums computers were up in the second story were the fire raged. Good job by the local firefighters to protect the computers while they doused the fire with a few tons of water.

The website is not hosted in the museum. It is a commercial service. The site uses a somewhat non-standard page format that may occassionally cause problems with some viewers.

I was nominally in charge of the website last year, but I am not sure who or if anyone is maintaining it now.