The Canton Cannonball crawls through the Spoon River bridge, built in 1893, at Seville, Illinois on the former west end of tje Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway. Seville, in western Fulton County, ... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A units lift 30 cars out of the west end of UE siding before heading west into Cuba, Illinois, with 62 cars. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A units roll west into Cuba, Illinois, with 62 cars. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A units are nearing nine years of service. A little worse for wear, the 1750 pulls thirty cars from the west end of UE siding, east of Cuba, Illinois. When the ... (more)

The KJRY F units, once again in A-B-A form, pull a short train from the TZPR yards. The wreath from Santa Train duty appears to be barely holding on.

Westbound KJR train is tucked in and slumbering in the siding at Good Hope,IL. on a pleasant sunday afternoon.

Peoria & Western's Santa Train heads west through Canton, IL., powered by a pair of covered wagons.

Peoria and Western spent most of Friday July 9th on Ameren's Duck Creek power plant spur retrieving coal hoppers from storage. Photographed about 400 yrds south of Il route 9 with the second pull... (more)

Peoria & Western Railway engineer Josh Flatley shoulders his three Funits and a GP16 into fifty-eight empty cars being shoved back into storage on the Ameren Spur east of Canton on Saturday mornin... (more)

After setting out the last cut of cars going to storage, the A-B-A FP9 set head back to town... After seeing many railfans in my life, I'm afraid some of them might exceed the weight limit in town... (more)

The Peoria Western rolls west out of Mapleton, IL, towards Good Hope, IL, with around 30 cars and the F units. Here the crew crosses a crossing at Breeds which is 5 miles East of Canton, IL. Norm... (more)

The Peoria Western has just crossed the BNSF Brookfield Sub and now pulls to the west end of Bushnell to do some local work. This job will run out to Good Hope, IL, and tie down for the night wit... (more)

Westbound Peoria Western F's head west with around 30 cars bound for Good Hope, IL. Here the train is passing thru Smithfield which is 16 miles west of Canton. Normally this train meets another lo... (more)

The westbound P&W sits on the main, poised for the start of the week with its A-B-A set of F's.

The Canton Cannonball is west bound at Cuba, Illinois minus A unit 1752 which is shopped for its 92 day inspection. A GP20R is filling in for the unit, as the train makes its way west on Monday J... (more)