Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development

Book Events

When the Railroad Leaves Town

2007 Author Presentations

April 14, 2007 (Saturday; National City Railroad Museum)

April 28, 2007 New York Central Historical Society, (Grand Island, New York)

May 6, 2007 Dundee Township Historical Society (West Dundee, IL)

July 21, 2007 Union Pacific Historical Society (Streamwood, IL) 

Past Events

March 9, 2005
Twentieth Century Railroad Club, Chicago. 7 p.m.

April 2, 2005
Wisconsin Association of Railroad Passengers, Clairion Hotel, Milwaukee Airport. 11:00 a.m.

May 6, 2005
National Railway Historical Society, Blackhawk Chapter, Lockport, IL 7 p.m.

June 11, 2005
DePaul University Naperville Campus (Public Service Graduate Program event) 10:00 a.m.

June 25, 2005
Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society, Pasadena, CA

July 13, 2005
DePaul University Loop Campus (Public Service Graduate Program event)

August 12, 2005
Summerail Railroad Festival, Cincinnati, OH

August 24, 2005
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Historical Society, Astoria, OR

September 1, 2005
Narrow Gauge Convention, Dearborn, MI

September 23, 2005
Golden Spike Railroad Conference, Indianapolis, IN

October 8, 2005
"The Future of Amtrak" DePaul University, Schmitt Academic Center, Room 154 at 1:30 p.m.

December 13, 2005
National Railway History Society Banquet. Cincinnati, OH 6:00 p.m.

Jan 2006
Details TBA. Garnett, IN

May 5, 2006
Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society, Camp Hill, PA

May 18, 2006
Chicago & North Western Historical Society, Rochelle, IL, 11 a.m.

June 1, 2006
Wilmette Public Library, Wilmette, IL, 1 p.m.

July 21, 2006
National Railway Historical Society Convention, New Philadelphia, Ohio

July 22, 2006
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Historical Society Convention, Frankfort, KY

October 1, 2006.
Monon Railroad Historical Society convention, Michigan City, IN. (book signing only)

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