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

We’re in the production phase!! All chapters are written and being proofed for grammatical and historical accuracy. The layout design of the book is now in progress! We’re still shooting for an early 2020 release, spring at the latest. Stay tuned! You can also follow us on Facebook/railsaroundindiana, Twitter @atsf101, @davcrisler

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,…

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…

Books are available here: https://michaelckelly.net/?post_type=product Or in person once COVID-19 passes and train shows are being held again. The cover price is $69.95, but using the link above, the price is $59.95 plus $10 shipping (USPS Priority Mail)

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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…