While the horizon is level, the railhead is not as 97A's Southbound crew gets thrown around the cab as the train hits a low spot in the siding North of Bellevue. They are meeting another F unit po... (more)

The conductor cuts in the air on six pulpwood loads to be spotted by Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad 6006 at the Louisiana Pacific plant at the end of the CN's Hayward branch. The former Algoma ... (more)

Milwaukee Road 63A south brings a train into Bensenville on a bitter cold February 1977 afternoon. The cooling water is freezing on the outside of the FP7 as the crew nears the yards here. STEVE S... (more)

Amtrak train 22, the Texas Eagle, runs through heavy snow as the sun is trying to break through after a February 1987 snow storm. The train is stopping at the Union Depot, and the small shack at r... (more)

Far from hauling Bay Area Commuters, Union Pacific GP40P-2 # 1373 South leads train M BNAS (Manifest - Bloomington - Alton Southern) along former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio trackage at Elkhart, Illinois ... (more)

The Nickel Plate Express ''Reindeer Ride Express'' rolls Southward at Arcadia, Indiana on Sunday, 16 December 2018. Steve Smedley

A Norfolk Southern crew approaches the crossing flashers which have been activated at Morris Avenue on the west side of Bloomington, Illinois, with a loaded grain train that had stalled earlier on... (more)

MILW 261 engineer Steve Sandberg is the engineer on Steve Glischinski's 1970's era photo freight, run on Monday Sept 8, 2008 on the CN's Dresser Subdivsion with crews and equipment from the Minn... (more)

Kansas City Southern ran its vivid Southern Belle business train over Iowa Chicago & Eastern lines now operated by CP Rail. The ABA F9A's shine as they head eastbound and off the causeway betwee... (more)

Two Illinois & Midland Railroad crews work in tandem as they set cars into a rip track and sort others with rare locomotives. I&M 31 is one of two RS1325's ever built, while 60 is one of a pair of... (more)

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)

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)

Canadian Pacific Railway's business train rolls through the street running North-bound at Bellevue, Iowa as the Chief Godfather of the Quad Cities salutes the train. Photo Tuesday, April 30, 2019.... (more)

A rarely seen aspect of the annual Santa Train out of Decatur, a Norfolk Southern crew and members of the Monticello Railway Museum hand off the passenger set at Monticello early Friday morning. ... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's A-A set of covered wagons move ballast cars into position as they pass through Canton, Illinois. The loud horns on the units have kids at Main Street protecting their ear... (more)