RAILS AROUND INDIANA: Sixty years ago last month, C&EI F-7 #1408 idles outside of the C&EI roundhouse at Wansford yard-Evansville in December, 1959. Photo by Robert Stevens, Chad Jenkins collection.
Rails Around Indiana is with the printer and scheduled for release in April, 2020. It will be hard cover, 296 pages filled with around 800 photos, history, maps and other railroad art. Pre-release orders are being take now: https://michaelckelly.net/?p=2366
Rails Around Indiana, the pictoral history of Indiana railroading, is completed and the printing phase has begun. Delivery is expected around the first week of April.
Rails Around Indiana has 296-pages filled with approximately 800 all-color images in a hard cover book. Our images are from 1950-1990, from over 30 contributors, and cover every corner of the state from north to south, east to west. Historical details go back to the origins of Indiana’s railroad network.
We are accepting pre-release orders at the pre-release price of $59.95 plus shipping. After the books arrive, the cover price is $69.95, the going rate for RR books half this size. All orders will come signed by Michael, David or both. Get yours reserved today with the link below:
https://michaelckelly.net/?post_type=product
Rails Around Indiana is now in the final editing phase; screening for typos, punctuation, grammar, and of course historical accuracy. Of the 800 or so color images, 8 of them are black & whites that we have had colorized, as an experiment into this format. We are still waiting on 2 of the images to come back as of this post.
The next step is exporting a printable file to our printer, receiving a few samples, then signing off on the final draft that will be printed. It will then be 90 days or so until we receive the books, at which time pre-orders will go out first, both retail and to dealers. Then both Dave and I will hit the train show circuit.
Presale details will be announced once the book is finally being printed. Stay tuned! You can also follow us on Facebook @railsaroundindiana, or on Twitter: @atsf101 or @DavCrisler
The design & layout of the book is now complete through Chapter Three! On to Chapter Four: Central Indiana.
Chapter One covered Northeast Indiana from the Ohio & Michigan borders to Just east of South Bend and North Judson
Chapter Two covered Northwest Indiana from South Bend & North Judson to the Illinois border.
Chapter Three covered Southeast Indiana from Muncie to the southern edge of the Ohio border at the Ohio River.
Chapter Four will take us back into central Indiana from west of Lafayette to Kokomo to the northern outskirts of Indianapolis.
Chapter Five will cover Indianapolis to Terre Haute and south to Bloomington.
Chapter Six will cover Southern Indiana from Bloomington to Louisville, Lawrenceburg to Vincennes & Mt Vernon.
Chapter 7 will feature various depots and towers across the state.
We are still shooting for an early 2020 release, sometime between January and May.
Presale will be announced when the book has been completed and is at the printer being printed.
Stay tuned!
A few weeks ago I was in Indianapolis, and went to a cafe in Broad Ripple, near the Monon Trail. I took the opportunity to get a shot of the White River bridge that we have a shot of the Monon crossing. It looks a little different today than 1969 when Monon 203 crossed it southbound. 1969 photo by Dave Strahlendorf.
Rails Around Indiana will be released in early 2020