Pioneer Railcorp's A-B-A set of vintage Funits head west from Canton, Illinois towards the last stop of the day at Cuba. The Peoria & Western Railway Santa Special made six stops along its line, o... (more)

Where in the US can you see an A-B-A-A-A lash-up of F units in 2010? La Harpe, IL, of course! In reality the power for today's eastbound Canton Cannonball shifts two OOS Fs around the yard.

The Canton Cannonball rolls steadily eastward at a blistering 10 mile per hour pace outside of Cuba, Illinois STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

The quiet farm town of Disco is interrupted by the Canadian tuned K3LA of light power A-B-A F9's as they return to Laharpe after setting out 60 cars on the TPW main for storage.

In the first time in 3 years Disco, IL sees some rail action. Peoria and Western is running two crews to pull about 300 cars out of storage, grab a dozen hoppers, and shove the 300 back. The secon... (more)

Where on earth can you find three F9's A-B-A pulling 106 empty coal cars? Disco, IL! On a rare move to pull cars from storage, the newly added B unit makes this trio perfect, as they climb out of ... (more)

On the last day of March 2010, two Keokuk Junction Railway crews are moving over 300 storage cars to dig out hoppers going back into service. The Peoria & Western set of Funits are in the siding a... (more)

In an unusual Tuesday run west due to a derailment, te Peoria & Western's Canton Cannonball heads west towards a meet with the Keokuk Junction job out of LaHarpe on Tuesday afternoon.STEVE SMEDLE... (more)

The Canton Cannonball heads westward into another snowfall on Monday morning. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

The Peoria & Western Railway's crew of engineer Dave Henry and conductor Jake Streitmatter take the Canton Cannonball westward at Seville, Illinois, over the Spoon River bridge. SAM SMEDLEY PHOTO

The Peoria & Western Railway's crew of engineer Dave Henry and conductor Jake Streitmatter take the Canton Cannonball westward as they roll through the Spoon River valley at Marietta, Illinois on ... (more)

You are looking east on main # 1 at Bushnell, as the Peoria Western's westbound local crawls across the diamond at Bushnell on their way towards Good Hope, IL, to meet the eastbound job out of Keo... (more)

The Peoria & Western Railway's crew of engineer Dave Henry and conductor Jake Streitmatter take the Canton Cannonball westward at Marietta, Illinois, the former site of the Marietta siding. SAM S... (more)

The Peoria & Western's ''Canton Cannonball'' departs Good Hope after meeting the Keokuk Junction Railways train out of Keokuk, Iowa on Monday Sept 28, 2009. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Keokuk Junction mechanic Nick Troutman ducks into the 1752, after four of the six locomotives failed on the Peoria & Western Railway coal train, failed to make the final pull of Glasford Hill. ST... (more)