“Rails” featured on “What’s Neat” podcast with Ken Patterson

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

  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, 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 cover book. Our images are from 1950-1990, from over 30 contributors, and cover every corner…

I’ve created a Flickr account for both personal rail photos and the Rails Around series of books. Check it out here Rails Around Indiana is 1/2 sold through in 3.5 months. Don’t miss out on a great book! Order your signed copy here

After receiving over 330 images so far, we have found our best candidate for the cover of Rails Around Indiana. Nothing says Indiana as much as the Monon, and here Monon 518 leads a southbound past the Gosport depot in the late 60s. Photo by Tony Koester. Unless something else comes in that really blows…

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.