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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…
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
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 and a GP40 work the yard on October 13, 1976. (Richard Koenig) Rails Around Indiana…
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