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Most of Mammoth Cave National Park’s landscape is an upland plateau dissected by deep, dry valleys, and at Doyle Valley that terrain posed a significant challenge to the Mammoth Cave Railroad. In 1886 a trestle leveled the grade. Today the park roadway is built on fill, reducing the steepness of the valley. In 1931, the Mammoth Cave Park Commission acquired the Mammoth Cave Railroad for $5,000. The locomotives, equipment and rails were sold for scrap. The trestle remained until 1961, when it was demolished to make way for the construction of the current highway.
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