In an unusual Tuesday run west due to a derailment, the Peoria & Western's Canton Cannonball heads east south of Bushnell. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

A Lancaster & Chester Railway job working industries, shoves several loads of railroad spikes up a hump and across Main Street as it passes the headquarters building of "The Springmaid Line". ST... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad train M ASBN (ALTON SOUTHERN - BLOOMINGTON) is crawling through the McLean siding during a perfectly timed meet with Amtrak train 304, which will pass the leader, an SD70Ace... (more)

Elgin Joliet & Eastern SD38-2 661 is working with two IC GP38-2's as she leads a switching move on the Amboy District at Clinton, Illinois on Sunday May 31, 2009. The J's SD38-2 locomotive fleet h... (more)

Something Wicked This Way Comes...as Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad F7 423 rolls along with the companys popular Bed & Breakfast train, about to take the switch to the Hayward Branch. The track... (more)

Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad 6006 a, former Algoma Central SD40-2, was repainted in preparation of its first service on the Hayward Branch as part of a switching agreement with CN. Steve Sm... (more)

The Canton Cannonball crawls through the Spoon River bridge, built in 1893, at Seville, Illinois on the former west end of tje Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway. Seville, in western Fulton County, ... (more)

Sleeping in on Sunday due to the time change, radio traffic on the Keokuk Junction Railway channel held a surprise for the photographer. Two Peoria & Western Railway crews were working on storing ... (more)

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

Peoria & Western Railway engineer Doug Henry leans from the cab of PREX 800, a GP8 that is on its first run helping the two FP9A's that have made this central Illinois railway a prime target for r... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad conductor Dennis ''Alton'' Smith boards lead locomotive UP 9890, after meeting Amtrak Train 21, the Texas Eagle on Monday evening, July 17 2006 at McLean, Illinois. The 9890... (more)

Business car IDAHO brings up the rear as the Union Pacific special clears Illinois Route 10, East of Mason City, Illinois. The Wednesday leg of UP's engineering special saw the train run later ov... (more)

Union Pacific train M ASBN conductor walks ahead of the stopped train in order to flag a highway crossing at the north end of the siding at McLean, Illinois on another typical spring day in Illino... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad South Local has a rare former Kennecott Copper GP39-2 on the point, as it passes the former BNSF GP7 owned by Elkhart Grain Company, on Tuesday morning Oct. 2, 2007. The 120... (more)

After serving two clay plants North of Aiken, the Aiken Railway returns to town after a thunderstorm had cooled temperatures. Steve Smedley photo