During the first 50 years of Mammoth Cave tourism, much of Kentucky was considered the American West, and the road leading to Mammoth Cave was sometimes as rugged as the primitive trails within it. In 1859, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was established between those two cities, and a spur line to the cave was completed in 1886. At $3.00 per ticket, the Mammoth Cave Railroad brought visitors 8.7 miles from Glasgow Junction, now Park City, to Mammoth Cave, with stops available at Diamond Caverns, Grand Avenue Cave, and Procter Cave. The route passed rolling hills, sinkholes, patches of forest, wooden farmhouses, livestock, and cultivated fields. One of four dummy 04-2T-type steam engines pulled a wooden coach or combination baggage-coach car up the Chester Escarpment, gaining 200 feet in elevation in less than one mile, then crossed a trestle at Doyle Valley and continued to the Mammoth Cave Estate and Hotel. Cave visitors, local families, and wedding parties viewed the Kentucky landscape through the dusty glass windows of the railroad cars.