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)

Rock Island almost matched this commuter train departing LaSalle Street Station as seen from Roosevelt Road. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

On a frigid Sunday night, Illinois & Midland #31, one of only two EMD RS1325's rests within the Powerton engine shed in Pekin, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

CNW 6803 south passes beneath the BNSF Mendota Sub at Buda, Illinois in the last rays of sunlight. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

CNW 8602 east in July of 1996. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

The Troy Grove Job departs Troy Grove, llinois on a Friday morning in October 1996. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway pulls the eastbound Barnum & Bailey Red Unit train, up out of the Illinois River Valley with four matched Susie Q painted GP20R's. The train was photographed on a ... (more)

Illinois Central Gulf train 33 comes down the runner in Bloomington, on its twice weekly run back from Chicago. The ICG had done its best to rid itself of traffic on the former GM&O lines. The en... (more)

With a face that EMD would not love, this homely chopnosed GP9 visits Chessies Barr Yard. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Hampshire, Illinois is as far east as this Extra East will make it, as an obviously tired crew waits for the taxi. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

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)

ON a lazy Sunday afternoon in October 1977, a muscle car sits at a set of fuel pumps in Bellevue, Iowa, as a set of Milwaukee Road Funits trundle down the street with a long grain train from Iowa ... (more)

The Peoria Local pumps air on a frigid Monday night as brakeman and conductor start walking to the head end, in Pekin Illinois on Jan. 21, 2008. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO, LIGHTING BY CRHMF

An empty grain train blasts out of Decatur, Illinois bound for loading in Mattoon.

The Peoria Local passes some antiques on Saturay afternoon. Illinois Central 3140 is another one of a kind locomotive on the current CNIC roster. The engine is former Chicago & North Western Railw... (more)