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Two new pages of photos added

ByMichael C Kelly October 5, 2014

Two new pages of train photos have been added in the railfan section.

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New book launch!!
ByMichael C Kelly July 13, 2016

I am pleased to announce the launch of my next book, Rails Around Indiana (and southern Illinois) – The Hoosier State in Days Past. This new book will follow in the template of Rails Around Missouri and Rails Around Michigan, featuring all-color photographs from the steam era to the mid-1980s. It will be hard cover,…

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New videos posted
ByMichael C Kelly September 20, 2014

I’ve posted 3 new videos on my YouTube channel covering trains in West St Louis County, Pacific, and coal trains on Kirkwood Hill. Click here to see them!

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“Rails Around” at the 2026 St Louis RPM meet
ByMichael C Kelly July 22, 2026July 22, 2026

I will be at the 2026 St Louis Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet at Gateway Center in Collinsville, Illinois Friday July 24 and Saturday July 25, 10am-4pm. I will have copies of Rails Around Central Illinois, Southern Illinois and Missouri, plus a way to pre-order my next book, Rails Around Northern Illinois! Stop by and say…

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Important ‘Rails Around Missouri’ update 8-6-13
ByMichael C Kelly August 6, 2013

Rails Around Missouri inventory almost 3/4 sold out! If you are still “thinking about it”, don’t wait too much longer as the inventory sits at just under 300 copies left out of 1000. The Frisco cover has only 100 copies remaining, and the KCS cover sits at 192 copies remaining here at “Rails” in Ballwin, Missouri….

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UP ‘Big Boy’ 4014 rolls through St Louis 8-30-21
ByMichael C Kelly September 1, 2021June 16, 2026

Union Pacific’s Big Boy #4014 rolled through St Louis on August 30, 2021. Stops were made in Kirkwood, Pacific, Washington, Hermann and Jefferson City

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Baby, it’s cold outside!
ByMichael C Kelly January 6, 2015

Frigid temps this week have me “firing up the way-back machine” looking back at old slides instead of venturing out to shoot new images. Here are a few from 1987-90 that convey “cold” to me. First, C&NW SD40-2 leads a Chicago-bound freight past the old Litchfield & Madison engine house in Edwardsville, IL on 12-18-87….

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