Illinois Central 1026, an SD70 leads a north bound set of light power away from setting out an empty unit grain train at the elevator in Tuscola, Illinois on this Friday afternoon. STEVE SMEDLEY ... (more)

Apparently Rail America subsidiary Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway buys into the ''paint doesn't make a locomotive run any better'' mantra, as a Westbound local works the Union Pacific interchang... (more)

The Keokuk Junction Railway turn from Keokuk, Iowa prepares to cut off its train to the crew using the two FP9A units of the Peoria & Western. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

With out of service fire damaged B unit left in LaHarpe, the Canton Cannoball heads eastward with the matched pair of Aunits on the Peoria & Western. The Bunit has been repaired after fire damag... (more)

The turn out of Keukok, Iowa ties into the PREX 1603, which has been pinch hitting for out of service B unit on the Peoria & Western, as the crew exchanges trains and power with the Canton Cannonb... (more)

On Halloween Sunday, Oct 31, Norfolk Southern PR43C 4001, A Progress Rail unit, leads the D46D into the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad yards in East Peoria, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

On Halloween Sunday, Oct 31, Norfolk Southern PR43C 4001, A Progress Rail unit, leads the D46D into the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad yards in East Peoria, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

After a fifteen year all volunteer restoration by the hard working crew at the Monticello Railway Museum, Southern Railway 401 is again under steam. Southern 401 was built in December of 1907. It... (more)

Norfolk Southern's two PR43C units, 4000-4001, the first on the roster, rest at Good Yard in Normal, Illinois on Saturday Oct. 16, 2010. NS, along with builder Progress Rail, recently announced a... (more)

Minneapolis & St. Louis RS-1 244 poses at the YMCA camp with a vintage freight train on the Boone & Scenic Valley. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Illinois Central 1026, an SD70 leads a Farmersville Coal train bound for flood loading at the Freeman United Coal mine in Farmersville, Illinois on Saturday Sept. 25, 2010. The engineer has the ai... (more)

After a fifteen year restoration by the volunteers of the Monticello Railway Museum, Southern 401, a Baldwin Locomotive Works H4 2-8-0 built in November of 1907, debuted on Saturday and Sunday dur... (more)

After a fifteen year restoration by the volunteers of the Monticello Railway Museum, Southern 401, a Baldwin Locomotive Works H4 2-8-0 built in November of 1907, debuted on Saturday and Sunday dur... (more)

The CNIC's Farmersville coal empties head for the Crown III mine at Farmersville, Illinois, southbound past the depot the city of Divernon has restored as a local museum. Engineer JD Wright has se... (more)

A former Reading Railroad locomotive works on shoving seven corn loads down the siding at Reading, Michigan on Tuesday morning, August 10, 2010 as the Indiana Northeastern works on loading a 75 c... (more)