Events & News

Richard Neil will be at an open presentation, discussion, signing:

October 18, 2025,10AM--Gardendale Historical Society, Gardendale Public Library, Gardendale, Alabama

November 8, 2025,10 AM--Trussville Historical Society, Trussville Historical Museum, Trussville, Alabama 

November 15, 2025, tba--Mid-South Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society at the Leeds Historic Railroad Depot, Leeds, Alabama

December 13, 2025, 9-3, Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, Calera, Alabama 

"Neil's book serves as an important witness to that long-ago disaster in Alabama"--Jackson McQuigg, vice president of properties for the Atlanta History Center, author of numerous railroad historical books and articles 

Signed copies of All the Livelong Day: The Thanksgiving Wreck at Woodstock by Richard Neil

are currently on sale at the Heart of Dixie Railraod Museum Gift Shop, Calera, Alabama. 

The book is also available through the museum's Boone Library

(the old, relocated Woodlawn Railroad Station), now part ot the Shelby County library system

See Birmingham Historical Site for recent post, December, 2024, regarding All the Livelong Day: The Thanksgiving Wreck at Woodstock by Richard Neil

the Crescent. & Southerner collide