Getting close to moving into the writing phase! https://youtu.be/IgK3nf5ylnQ
A video blog with background on the inspiration to be an author, and overcoming nay-sayers
As Thanksgiving and the Christmas shopping season approaches, just a reminder that the 2nd run (MoPac cover) of this critically acclaimed hard-cover book is still available! 224 pages with over 500 all-color photos from 1946-1986. $48+$5 shipping. Contact Don Banwart, Sekan Printing, donald@sekan.com, or 620 223-5190, option 1
For a free, 18-page PDF preview, go to the Rails Around Missouri page above.
If you have images you’d like preserved and possibly published, please contact me.


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, for both preservation and possible publication at some point in the future. The books I produce are based on personal interest, and after the current Indiana & southern Illinois books, my ultimate goals are rare mileage & ghost railroads, and a book on pre-Amtrak passenger trains, from steam & early diesel era to the last single-car, coach-only service across weedy-wobbly tracks.