Union Pacific train M BNAS (BLOOMINGTON-ALTON SOUTHERN) sports the Mopac and Chicago & Northwestern Heritage units as the train rolls south at Williamsvile, Illinois on a fantastic spring Saturd... (more)

Milwaukee Road 100A leads train 107 into Green Island, Iowa on a fantastic fall day, Oct. 21, 1978. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Illinois Railway's Job 107 makes an unsual daylight appearance over the Ottawa line, as the lines newly aquired SD45R, 7444, rolls along at 10mph. The train skirts the Fox River just south of Os... (more)

The eastbound Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway crew has no trouble getting across the diamond at Chenoa, Illinois as the depot of the former Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad and Tip-Up crumbles back t... (more)

With the Illinois River well above flood stage, Tazewell & Peoria Railway drags a Cedar Rapids coal loads bound for the Iowa Interstate, on Sunday afternoon Sept 21 2008.

Not a cloud in the sky, with a temperature in the low 70's, and the Peoria & Western Funits are running west. Of course, when your friends come to visit, the scene you have photographed at least a... (more)

The Illinois Railnet LaSalle to Zearing Job is shown crawling across one of several wooden trestles, this one over Spring Creek at Ladd, Illinois on its way to interchange with the BNSF at Zearing... (more)

Far from fighting grades of the Rocky Mountains, former Rio Grande GP30 3016 is preparing to shove a car three miles to an online transloading facility North of Athens, Georgia on Thursday April ... (more)

Milwaukee Road 183 west, the 226 train, has two spotless SD40-2's for power, trailed by a filthy Milwaukee Road FP7 96C still in yellow passenger service colors. The 96C might look filthy, but its... (more)

The photographers son, Sam Smedley, hands up Gatorade and candy bars gifted to the crew during a slow paced chase westward at Cuba, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway 1750 West crosses Illinois State Route 95 at New Philadelphia, Illinois on Tuesday, 9 April 2019. With the B unit out of the A-B-A set for service, the two Aunits, both FP9... (more)

Monticello Railway Museum locomotive engineer Hank Brickman, who joined the museum in 1966, is shown operating the Saturday afternoon tourist train through the woods around Camp Creek, North of Mo... (more)

Amtrak train 300 screams through Atlanta, Illinois early Friday morning, the last day of April 2010 with a former Amtrak F40PH converted into a NPCU, or Non Powered Control Unit. The NPCU's were... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball heads east out of LaHarpe on a cold Monday afternoon, Nov. 17, 2014. Steve Smedley photo

Dave Henry has his two FP9A's and GP20 2003 busting through what a snow plow has left alongside Trivoli Road as a train of new crude oil tank cars head West of Glasford, Illinois, and toward stora... (more)