From Chapter Five: The Illinois Central came to Bloomington in 1906 as the Indianapolis Southern Railroad. The IC had a very small yard between Walnut and Indiana streets, near the Indiana University campus. Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) Paducah-rebuild GP-10 #8013 … Continue reading
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Here’s a quick 3-minute video previewing 50+ of the around 800 photos in our new book, Rails Around Indiana. Pre-release orders are being taken now: https://michaelckelly.net/?post_type=product Video: https://youtu.be/Oya35uDlvMY … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading