Keokuk Junction Railway's TZPR turn works at yarding a long train in a crowded Tazewell & Peoria Railroad in East Peoria, Illinois on Friday, November 30, 2018. The Norfolk Southern power in th... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's TZPR turn approaches Sanger Street in Peoria, Illinois after interchanging inbound for outbound cars in the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad yard in East Peoria, Illinois on 3... (more)

Canadian National's Peoria Local rolls South along 3rd Street in Pekin, Illinois as it approaches a switch at IC Junction, which will take the light power onto the CN's Peoria District. Photo 29 N... (more)

A friendly wave from the conductor, as Illinois Central Railroad Class Deathstar SD70 leads a North bound Peoria Local South of Hartsburg, Illinois on Tuesday evening, September 11, 2018. The P... (more)

An Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad special on its way to home rails, as the train rolls along former CNW trackages through Bark River, Michigan. Steve Smedley

Illinois Central Railroad Class Deathstar SD70 leads a two-car North bound Peoria Local at Lincoln, Illinois on Monday evening, August 27, 2018. The Peoria Local is a turn out of the CN Decatur ya... (more)

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)

The Hermansville, Michigan Vietnam Museum has a Bell UH-1 Huey helicopter on display, as Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad RS12 waits for a switch to be lined. Steve Smedley photo

With a relief crew aboard and wasting no time, Union Pacific train ILXG4X-22 with the Western Pacific Railroad heritage loco, SD70ACe 1983, is North-bound at Broadwell, Illinois on the former A... (more)

Rock Island 4506 rolls Eastward and approaches a farmers crossing East on the Illinois Railway Museum at Union, Illinois Sunday, July 8 2018. The newly restored locomotive debuted this weekend. St... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Heritage locomotive SD70ACe 1065, the Savannah & Atlanta, leads train 54W South of Monticello, Illinois at dusk on Monday, June 18, 2018. The grain train came off the Toledo, ... (more)

The Keokuk Job has run East to service the grain elevator in Blandinsville and is now shoving 11 loads West back to LaHarpe. The 56 year old former Santa Fe GP20 is part of the backbone fleet of P... (more)

Indiana Northeastern's 2185 North works at Fremont, Indiana on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Steve Smedley

Indiana Northeastern Tree Down Sas In typical short line fashion, engineer conductors Jeffrey James, at left, and Jimmy VanHeerde make quick work of a downed tree on the tracks. Indiana Northeas... (more)

Wisconsin & Southern train T6 rolls out of Milton Junction after cutting 49 grain loads for a T4 crew to deliver to Darien, Wisconsin. Steve Smedley