Events & News

Richard Neil will be at a meet & greet, discussion, signing

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

Tentative "Stories" presentation for All the Livelong Day at Montevallo Library in December

~Don Noble's Alabama Public Radio Written & Audio Review at Link Below~

All the Livelong Day | Alabama Public Radio

~"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

at the Heart of Dixie Railraod Museum Gift Shop, Calera, Alabama.  

The book is also available through the Birmingham Public Library, Southern Collection, and  the Heart of Dixie's Museum's Boone Library--

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

*Thanks to the Mid-South Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum, the Trussville Historical Society, the Gardendale Historical Society, and the Birmingham Public Library for hosting All the Livelong Day Richard Neil Events.* 

Birmingham Historical Site post regarding All the Livelong Day: The Thanksgiving Wreck at Woodstock by Richard Neil

the Crescent & Southerner collide: