The Hoosier Southern Railroad comes out of the flood wall at Tell City, Indiana and begins to run along Main Street, passing a red redneck Chevy. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway begins to move an 88 car empty ethanol train for storage on the LaHarpe to Lomax section of its former TPW lines. The train is just under way after pumping air and walking ... (more)

Union Pacific train M BNAS (BLOOMINGTON-ALTON SOUTHERN) sports the Mopac and Chicago & Northwestern Heritage units as the train rolls south along old US Highway 66 at Elkhart, Illinois on a fantas... (more)

Illinois Railnet CF 7 # 3 is crawling across a timber trestle north of Spring Valley, Illinois on its trip to Zearing and interchange with BNSF. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Minneapolis & St. Louis RS-1 244 poses at the YMCA camp with a vintage freight train on the Boone & Scenic Valley. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

UP Heritage Repaint of Mopac Sas Union Pacific Railroad's first heritage unit repaint is SD70ACe 1982. Tim Holmes and his two year-old son Jason videotape and photograph the DPU on Southbound Uni... (more)

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)

Rail America's Toledo Peoria & Western Railway Galesburg Job has high wides on the head end, as it heads back to Peoria in snow showers at Knoxville, Illinois. The Knoxville PD is quiet this morni... (more)

Union Pacific special rolls along in the Mackinaw River bottoms, south of South Pekin, Illinois on its way to a crew change. The Wednesday leg of UP's engineering special saw the train run later o... (more)

On Halloween Sunday, Oct 31, Norfolk Southern PR43C 4001, A Progress Rail unit, leads the D46D west of Deer Creek, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Southern Railway GP59 4610 was loaned by the Norfolk Southern as a static display during Monticello Railway Museum's Railroad Days event, held the weekend of Sept 17-18, 2011 in Monticello, Illin... (more)

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)

A must see (and ride) visit to the Northwoods of Wisconsin is the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad. Here, former Milwaukee Road 1616, an SW-1 built in 1940, rolls the family pizza train Northward... (more)

Amtrak train number 22, the Texas Eagle, screams through Atlanta, Illinois doing the track speed of 79miles-per-hour, on Sunday morning Feb. 13, 2011 behind locomotive #145 , the first of four l... (more)

Norfolk Southern train D49D begins the yarding process of its train from East Peoria, Illinois. The two PR43C's; Caterpillar powered locomotives produced by Progress Rail, are again testing betwee... (more)