Union Pacific grain loads sail through Lawndale, Illinois at 10:20am on a fantastic Saturday morning, the first day of September 2007.

Union Pacific Railroad southbound freight M BNAS (Bloomington - Alton Southern) runs over the ex-GM&O at Ridgely Tower in Springfield, Illinois. The tower operator is outside to give the train a ... (more)

Canadian Pacific Railway's business train tiptoes along the flooded backwaters of the Mississippi River as it closes in on the street running at Bellevue, Iowa. Photo Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Cop... (more)

Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway SD20 81 leads SD9's 54 and 50 as they pull a long coal loads out of Powerton yards, before shoving into the Powerton Generating Station South of Pekin, Illinois.... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's Eastbound with the A-B-A set of FP9's approaches Main Street in Canton on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Steve Smedley photo

Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad RS12 leads a company passenger special Northward past the former Milwaukee Road Depot at Iron Mountain, Michigan. Thanks to Fred Pajak (real retired firefighter)... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway train D0 55 passes through Ellsworth, Illinois with heavy duty flats of Caterpillar Tractor Company equipment. The Twin Groves Wind Farm is the backdrop for the train, man... (more)

The Peoria & Western Railway, a Pioneer Rail Corp affiliate, has placed two former Algoma Central FP9A's in freight service. On Saturday March 31, the two units were used to make an interchange ru... (more)

Beautifullly restored former Erie Mining Co 4210 sits in the one stall enginehouse of Olin Locomotive Works. The shop does all mechanical work for Indiana Boxcar's locomotive fleet. The F9 is now ... (more)

The last Chicago & Illinois Midland painted loco on the Illinois & Midland roster is former IC SD20 # 81, shown waiting a call south out of Pekin.

Bloomer Line Veteran leads corn train At 64 years old, Bloomer Line 7549 South blasts past old code line alongside the former Wabash mainline that once hosted the streamliner "Blue Bird&quo... (more)

A Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad engineer cleans a snow and ice buildup from the brow of former Chicago & NorthWestern RR F7 423. Steve Smedley

The sun reflects off the side of the Bloomer Line's first locomotive, GP9 7591, a former Northern Pacific unit, with the air temperature at 0 degrees. Bloomer Line engineer Paul Jones moves 28 ... (more)

Illinois Central's Peoria Local rattles the mail boxes at Chestervale, Illinois. The Chestervale Elevator is the oldest operating wooden grain elevator in Logan County.

Illinois & Midland Railroad Work 43 South is wide open as it begins the battle for Hilltop, a station location between Petersburg and Oakford, Illinois once known as a helper district. The train h... (more)