What turned out to be a treat for the photographer was more of a trick for the crew of Halloween Day's Canton Cannonball. Upon arrival Monday, crews could not get the train moving due to ground re... (more)

Engineer Josh Flatley enjoys the picture perfect first day of fall, as he rolls the Canton Cannonball westward at New Philadelphia, Illinois on Friday Sept 23, 2011. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

The photographers wife visits with the train crew of Dave and Doug Henry, as the re-lettered Keokuk Junction Railway FP9's wait a signal to cross the BNSF diamonds at Bushnell, Illinois on Monday ... (more)

Southern Railway GP59 4610 was loaned by the Norfolk Southern as a static display during Monticello Railway Museum's Railroad Days event, held the weekend of Sept 17-18, 2011 in Monticello, Illin... (more)

Kansas City Southern Railway Company KCS #1, ''The Shreveport'', an F9, leads the Southern Belle passenger special bound for East St. Louis, Illinois over the Illinois River lift bridge at Pearl... (more)

Peoria & Western Railway's Jake Streitmatter watches for traffic west of New Philadelphia, as he rides aboard GP16 1603, now dead in consist due to problems on a hill earlier in the trip. The Cant... (more)

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)

Crews of the Wisconsin Great Northern fired up Missabe Road Crane X-7, to lift former Chicago & North Western F7A 400 off its rear truck. According to president Greg Vreeland, the 400 ''has given ... (more)

A CSXT ethanol train bound for the Greenville & Western, begins to pull at Pelzer, South Carolina on Wednesday 2011. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Pickens 9507, a U18B, burbles south just outside Anderson, South Carolina. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

In a scene that looks more like Wisconsin branch line railroading, than in Georgia, an un-touched ''Zito Yellow'' GP9, works on a Hartwell Georgia Job out of Royston, as three bulkhead flats are s... (more)

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)

Far from fighting grades of the Rocky Mountains, former Rio Grande GP30 3016 is preparing to shove a car three miles to an online transloading facility North of Athens, Georgia on Thursday April ... (more)

Norfolk Southern's D46 rolls southward with 32 cars, including several Caterpillar tractor loads on the head end, as the crew and train passes the KOA Campgrounds west of Carlock. STEVE SMEDLEY P... (more)

Union Pacific 6414 with heavy wreck damage in the UP Adams Street yard in Peoria. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO