Saturday’s monthly talk at the Old L&N Depot now called the “All Aboard Series” won’t entirely be about railroads.

“But I do have a surprise at the end of the presentation about railroads,” said Jonathan Jeffrey, library special collections professor at Western Kentucky University.

Jeffrey will begin his 8:30 a.m. talk discussing the two year making and the outcome of the Kentucky Library’s exhibit: “Warren County Sights and Sounds.” The exhibit runs until Dec. 7.

“The project was sponsored by several groups to collect photographs and moving images related to Warren County history,” Jeffrey said. “Over two years we got 150 photographs and 45 feet of movies. We have on exhibit 90 of those and a DVD playing.

“I’m going to show 30 of those images (not on display) and explain how we got them, what they are and why they are important,” he said. “I am going to bring some related to transportation but it won’t be exclusive to that.”

As a result of the exhibit, a Bowling Green man who was a member of a camera club in the ’40s and ’50s donated a collection of color slides of downtown and other parts of Warren County.

“One of the things he did was he went to the rail yard and took photos of steam engines that were still running at the time,” he said. “They are just great photographs, some with rail road personnel in them but mostly he focused on the trains.”

Other photographs that were collected for the exhibit include women riding in a sleigh around the square, John F. Kennedy giving his 1960 campaign speech on the steps of Bowling Green City Hall and others.

Jeffrey said he wants to get the word out that people can give their historic photographs to the museum without actually giving them up physically.

“We now have the capabilities of scanning all those photographs, so they can actually keep the original,” he said.

A copy offers protection that the historic value of the photographs won’t be lost.

Other scheduled talks: Sept. 27, Norman Warnell, Mammoth Cave National Park, “Mammoth Cave Railroad Excursions - Past and Present;” Oct. 25, Greg Matthews, Kentucky Railway Museum, “Irish Immigrants and the Railroad;” Nov. 29, Trace Moore, Hart County Historical Society, “Battle for the Bridge: the L&N Railroad during the Civil War;” Jan. 31, Micheal Barron, Morris Jewelers, “Railroad Timepieces;” Feb. 28, Dr. Janet Bass-Smith, professional musician, “Railroad Music and Folklore;” March 28, Tommy Hines, Shaker Museum at South Union, “L&N Railroad and the Shaker Community;” April 25, Ray Buckberry, historian, “Bowling Green and the Glasgow Railroad Feud.”

— For more information, visit www.historicrailpark.com.