Corman 4119 heads back to the barn with RP20BD 5400 sitting on the main.

The Peoria & Western Railway's crew of engineer Dave Henry and conductor Josh Flatley take the Canton Cannonball westward as they roll through the Spoon River valley and down the Smithfield Hill, ... (more)

The Peoria & Western Railway's Canton Cannonball is westward running through the start of snowfall in the Spoon River valley at Marietta, Illinois on Monday Feb 8, 2010. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Western Pacific power sits in Keddie, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on September 2, 1973. WP 2001 was the first of ten GP20s purchased by the WP, and is now a part of the Feather Riv... (more)

Ex Milw. GP20 957,963, Soo 717 smoke it up as they head east after stopping for the E&LS diamond in Pembine. The ex Milw. GP20 rebuilds were not common on trains into the Upper Peninsula. The Soo ... (more)

A UP original consist of GP20 481, GP30B 704B and GP35 749 on a eastbound grain train at Lincoln.

The Greenville job has returned from Ansonia and heads east on the former PRR main. The line that once hosted passenger trains between Columbus and St. Louis, now is the domain of tank cars and c... (more)

Christmas Eve, 1981, finds GP20s 2050 and 2058 at the BN facility in Denver - not sure if these were in storage, but they always seemed to be in the same place for each visit!

As the sun begins to set the Keokuk Junction / Peoria & Western stands ready to head west the next day on the old TP&W west end.

The Peoria & Western's ''Canton Cannonball'' , left, has just traded trains with the Keokuk Junction Railways train out of Keokuk, Iowa as the PREX 2035 west gets a roll by from 1752. STEVE SMEDL... (more)

SCL No. 214 has just crossed Crabtree Creek at Raleigh, NC on an early morning in the fall of 1976. This morning finds a trio of GP20's (2 SSW and 1 SP) a long way from home rails handling the h... (more)

Sierra GP20 #50 had left Oakdale with seven empty centerbeam flats, spotting six of them at the SPI mill in Chinese Camp. The old geep would continue on East thru Jamestown and Sonora taking the o... (more)

Grain empties being hauled south to Macon on the Decatur Junction.