Keokuk Junction Railway's Eastbound with the A-B-A set of FP9's rolls past the east siding switch at Rawalts, Illinois on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Steve Smedley photo

Peoria & Western Railway engineer Josh Flatley shoulders his three Funits and a GP16 into fifty-eight empty cars being shoved back into storage on the Ameren Spur east of Canton on Saturday mornin... (more)

Brothers Dave Henry, in the 1752, and Doug Henry, in a troublesome last unit, have the 67 car cut rolling through the S curve on the power plant spur as they approach Illinois Rt. 9. STEVE SMEDLE... (more)

The photographers son, Sam Smedley, poses with the Peoria & Western Railway coal train, stalled on Rawalts Hill East of Canton, Illinois with the classic power of FP9A, GP8 and four GP20R's The tr... (more)