Frisco Steam Salute closeout sale!

Frisco Steam Salute is now on sale for just $10! If you missed out on this great book from Don Wirth, now’s your chance! Hurry before they are gone! Frisco Steam Salute | michaelckelly.net

Frisco Steam Salute is now on sale for just $10! If you missed out on this great book from Don Wirth, now’s your chance! Hurry before they are gone! Frisco Steam Salute | michaelckelly.net
7-13-26: Rails Around Northern Illinois is completed and currently being printed! Estimated arrival and shipping out to readers will be early October, 2026. From now until October 1, the book is available to order at $64.95, which is $15 off the $79.95 cover price, plus USPS Media Mail postage. Order here!! Your copy will come…
Major updates! I have completed the writing of Volume 1! Now it’s on to design and layout. IF I can get this book to the printer by August, it will be in stock by November in time for the Springfield and Collinsville train shows! Fingers crossed! 2- Volume 1 has been renamed to Rails Around…
My 7th book, Rails Around Northern Illinois, is through the writing phase! Next is design and layout, then final edits before the printer deadline of August 1, 2026. The goal is to have the book released late October, early November 2026, in time for Christmas! Meanwhile, the Central Illinois book is 70% sold out, and…
Springfield was home to the Frisco’s largest shops in both the days of steam and diesel. Heavy locomotive repairs and rebuilds were performed here since 1909. Constructed in 1948, the diesel shop served the Frisco and its successors until 1996, when it was closed by BNSF. Demolished in 2006, the shops are seen on June…
Rails Around Missouri inventory almost 3/4 sold out! If you are still “thinking about it”, don’t wait too much longer as the inventory sits at just under 300 copies left out of 1000. The Frisco cover has only 100 copies remaining, and the KCS cover sits at 192 copies remaining here at “Rails” in Ballwin, Missouri….
Viewed from the Sterling 1st Street Waterworks on the city’s east side, C&NW Falcon service train #239 crosses the Sterling Causeway over the Rock River on June 26, 1981. The causeway was formed in the early 1900s by the construction of dams between Sterling and Rock Falls, flooding the fields north (photo left) of the…