Iowa Interstate 516 North rolls through Sparland, Illinois during a fantastic April Fools Day Chase, brought to this photographer and others by Erik Rasmussen, secretary treasurer of the Quad City... (more)

An Iowa Interstate crew begins to double its train out of Limit Yard on the North side of Peoria, as it passes the old waterworks building on April 1st, 2015. Steve Smedley photo

Norfolk Southern train 64D, a loaded ethanol train out of Iowa, blasts past Good Yard in Normal, Illinois, Southbound on the Bloomington District with engineer Steve Johnston at the throttle of a ... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's 2018 West is the flip side of the Keokuk Job begining its roll west towards LaHarpe and then its home base of Keokuk, Iowa, as the Eastbound Canton Cannonball waits for t... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's 2047 East rolls light engine out of the east end of the siding, will clear westward on the main allowing the Funit powered Canton Cannonball to cut off its train and roll... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball works a 79 car train westbound as it nears Good Hope, Illinois and a meet with an eastbound out of Keokuk, Iowa. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball rolls across the rebuilt Spoon River crossing at Seville, population 9, as the train nears Kiki Hollow. Steve Smedley photo

The crew of train D09 occupies Oakland Avenue as they call the approach distant signal for BN Target on Friday afternoon. Steve Smedley photo

Wisconsin Great Northern pulls loads of LP Smartboard from the Louisiana Pacific plant in Hayward, Wisconsin. Steve Smedley photo

Crews from RJ Corman Derailment Services of Caseyville use two side boom tractors to lift a locomotive so a bad traction motor wheelset can be removed, at Union Pacific Railroad yards off West Ch... (more)

Crews from RJ Corman Derailment Services of Caseyville use two side boom tractors to lift a locomotive so a bad traction motor wheelset can be removed, at Union Pacific Railroad yards off West Ch... (more)

Engineer Doug Henry backs his train towards the Hollis Pass while working a set of eighty storage tank cars. Normal operations are a Monday run westbound, that will wait till Thursday and more car... (more)

One of only two RS1325's built, rolls across Fuelberth Road Southbound out of Powerton. Steve Smedley photo

Union Pacific 2280 South sails through Funks Grove, where, in 2006, two men claimed to have seen Big Foot. Steve Smedley photo

Union Pacific 2280 South sails along the Mother Road, Old US Route 66, as it passes through Atlanta just as the snow begins to fall, February 28, 2015. Steve Smedley photo