Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway SD38-2/3 666, bedevils grazing cows at Mt. Pulaski, Illinois as it's normally aspirated EMD 16-645E 16-cylinder power plant shoves a fifty car empty grain train ... (more)

Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway GP38-2 703 heads through Mt. Pulaski with seventy two loads and 5 empties, 9388 tons, the train will fall down and stall on Warrensburg Hill in less than an hour a... (more)

CNIC's Peoria Local digs three cars out of a set of grain empties while working on making the J 703 the trailing unit to Pekin this morning. Steve Smedley photo

Union Pacific power leads an empty coal train North on the CNIC Peoria District. Steve Smedley photo

Engineer Rance Grieder brings the Peoria Local into yard limits at ''MI'' as the sun is close to setting on the first day of December. The 2458 might not look good, but she is still pulling freigh... (more)

Engineer Rance Grieder, aboard Illinois Central GP38-2 9621, builds air while performing switching moves with a single unit Peoria Local, as his conductor walks to line a switch. The under-pow... (more)

The Illinois Central's Peoria District hosts loaded coal trains headed in both directions. Today, a south bound is headed for Decatur with an ADM Coal loads at Mt. Pulaski, Illinois on Monday Jan.... (more)

Yard units from Decatur arrive to move a cut of grain cars.

Illinois Central 6128 leads two former GM&O GP38's on a late running dog catched Peoria Local, at ''MI'', railroad telegraph station reporting marks for Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.

IC 3140 heads north, after interchanging cars with the Clinton Distict local.

Illinois Central Gulf Railroad ''HOOSIER COAL'', loaded at Farmersville coal mine south of Springfield, is taking the wye off the Springfield District and has about half of its train on the PD ma... (more)

IC 3140 departs Mt. Pulaski, in 72 degree Sunday afternoon weather. The 3140 is a one of a kind unit on the CNIC's roster, coming from a former CNW GP50. Its far from its start in life racing Falc... (more)

IC 3140 works Mt. Pulaski, in 72 degree Sunday afternoon weather. The 3140 is a one of a kind unit on the CNIC's roster, coming from a former CNW GP50. Its far from its start in life racing Falcon... (more)

Illinois Central 3140 North works past an abandoned farm truck in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

CNIC conductor Dave Bundy prepares to set out two cars of company material at Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. IC 9636 is on the point of the daly Peoria Local. The unit has been freshly touched up, with ne... (more)