Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

NORTH EAST — White steam vanished. Black smoke cleared. The chugga-chugg of the locomotive disappeared. A few minutes later, a little boy, wearing a Big Boy hat and a Big Boy shirt, began to sing the ...