Blues update 1-20

Rails Around Southern Illinois is almost finished in the writing phase! Next is design/layout, then historical/grammatical editing, then off to the printer! I am still anticipating a May 1 release, but maybe sooner if completed ahead of schedule. I’ll start accepting pre-orders as soon as it goes to print. Stay tuned! (Proposed cover shot by…

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…

Time to hit the road to the Transcon, a place I hadn’t been in a while. In fact, I hadn’t been to Marceline since working my way from there to LaPlata in October 2013 while touring with Rails Around Missouri. First up, a ballast train @ Bucklin around 8am; Next, the first of many stack…

Along this latest journey to producing another book, I’m discovering stories of people whose slide collections were lost or discarded after the photographer’s passing – their survivors were not told about the collections or what to do with them. So with that in mind, I am stating that I am actively seeking railroad slide/photograph collections,…

Yours truly was a guest on “What’s Neat This Week” with Ken Patterson, a weekly model railroading podcast sponsored by Athearn and Bachmann. My appearance begins around the 7:25 mark. https://youtu.be/w4Q7cFFc048

Rails Around Southern Illinois has been submitted to the printer, and the presale has begun! Reserve your copy today for $59.95 plus shipping. All copies will be signed by me, the author. ORDER here. Delivery will be upon arrival from the printer, which is expected first week of May, 2023.