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 is enroute from the printer, and is scheduled for release April 1. The pre-release price is still available here: https://michaelckelly.net/?p=2366
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 INDIANA: Sixty years ago last month, C&EI F-7 #1408 idles outside of the C&EI roundhouse at Wansford yard-Evansville in December, 1959. Photo by Robert Stevens, Chad Jenkins collection.
Rails Around Indiana is with the printer and scheduled for release in April, 2020. It will be hard cover, 296 pages filled with around 800 photos, history, maps and other railroad art. Pre-release orders are being take now: https://michaelckelly.net/?p=2366
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 of the state from north to south, east to west. Historical details go back to the origins of Indiana’s railroad network.
We are accepting pre-release orders at the pre-release price of $59.95 plus shipping. After the books arrive, the cover price is $69.95, the going rate for RR books half this size. All orders will come signed by Michael, David or both. Get yours reserved today with the link below:
https://michaelckelly.net/?post_type=product
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 come back as of this post.
The next step is exporting a printable file to our printer, receiving a few samples, then signing off on the final draft that will be printed. It will then be 90 days or so until we receive the books, at which time pre-orders will go out first, both retail and to dealers. Then both Dave and I will hit the train show circuit.
Presale details will be announced once the book is finally being printed. Stay tuned! You can also follow us on Facebook @railsaroundindiana, or on Twitter: @atsf101 or @DavCrisler