Noted rail photographer and author Harold Edmondson uses his omnipresent step stool as he photographs three F7's on the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad. The former Columbia Star Dinner train loc... (more)

Wabash 1189 is on home rails as it sails along on an equipment move, positioning equipment for a Norfolk Southern employees Santa Train which operates out of Decatur this weekend, (Dec. 14-15). Th... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's classic set of Funits have made the mandatory stop at Iowa Junction on the South side of Peoria, along with gaining permission from the dispatcher to run into the ''hump'... (more)

One degree above zero at 23:16 as the inbound and outbound crews trade out with Union Pacific Heritage locomotive CNW 1995 outside the Bloomington, Illinois yard office . Steve Smedley photo

Iowa Interstate 516 North rolls through Sparland, Illinois during a fantastic April Fools Day Chase, brought to this photographer and others by Erik Rasmussen, secretary treasurer of the Quad City... (more)

After a fifteen year restoration by the volunteers of the Monticello Railway Museum, Southern 401, a Baldwin Locomotive Works H4 2-8-0 built in November of 1907, debuted on Saturday and Sunday dur... (more)

The Hermansville, Michigan Vietnam Museum has a Bell UH-1 Huey helicopter on display, as Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad RS12 waits for a switch to be lined. Steve Smedley photo

It was almost an afterthought to turn and photograph this last movement at dusk in October of 1976, as two Louisville & Nashville U30 C's, with caboose 6370 in trail, hammer across the IHB and Che... (more)

Conductor Jake watches as the Canton Cannonaball crawls across the Spoon River bridge at Seville. The river is well above Flood stage, but had gone down according to Jake. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO ... (more)

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

In a scene that looks more like Wisconsin branch line railroading, than in Georgia, an un-touched ''Zito Yellow'' GP9, works on a Hartwell Georgia Job out of Royston, as three bulkhead flats are s... (more)

Norfolk Southern's train 30R isn't running all that fast, however the motorcyclist is still running the crossing which has been activated for several seconds at Allin Street in Bloomington, Illino... (more)

The Peoria & Western Railway's crew of engineer Dave Henry and conductor Josh Flatley drag a half mile of train through Bushnell, Illinois as the Canton Cannonball heads east on the first run of t... (more)

It pays to carry extra fire boots, when you discover that your soon to be sixteen year old son has worn sneakers out for a day of winter photography with the Peoria & Western Railway's Canton Can... (more)

The Illinois Central Railroad operates a wedge snow plow and two locomotives to clear its rail line between Clinton and Gilman, Illinois on Thursday Feb. 3, 2011. CN 9571 and a sister GP38-2 are s... (more)