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Christmas is coming!
If you are looking for great Christmas gifts for the railfans on your life, there are 2 great books still available for under the tree! Rails Around Michigan and Rails Around Missouri! Rails Around Michigan is available from amazon.com as a print-on-demand title. Rails Around Missouri is available by contacting Don Banwart, donald@sekan.com, or calling…
Images from Spring 2014
It’s been a while since I’ve posted railfan pics, so here are a few from this spring, mostly BNSF & UP from west St Louis County. First up, eastbound BNSF freight in Kirkwood on 3-6-14: Next, eastbound BNSF crossing the Meramec River in Valley Park on 3-23-14: NS 9232 leads an eastbound Q train on…
Returning to the 90s – Metro East
Setting up shop in the new Harbor View office led to digging through old negatives in search of a specific CNW shot. I found that, plus a few more that I found interesting if for nothing else than a look back at the way things were. First up, Southern Pacific AC4400 # 283 and C44-9W…
1522 doing just fine in hibernation
Paid a visit to the Museum of Transport at lunch today to check in on an old friend. She appears to be doing ok. Under the shed, rods greased, cab locked up, etc. Would love to see her run again.
Rails Around Missouri sold out
Rails Around Missouri is now sold out! After trains shows in St Louis and Springfield on consecutive weekends, Rails Around Missouri is now officially sold out. A re-run is being considered, but isn’t likely. Work will now begin on converting the book to PDF, e-reader, Kindle, and print on demand. Stay tuned for more…
Rails Around Indiana update December 2019
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…