The Chillicothe Fire Department will be practicing extrication with this classic Camaro, as another classic passes with the Peoria Rocket on Friday the 13th. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball rolls downhill off Glasford Hill and across Trivoli Road on Halloween afternoon, Monday October 31, 2011. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

What may be the final grain train out of Heyworth rolls south on the former Illinois Central's Charter line. The engineer has hung his safety vest outside his cab window, apparently bored with the... (more)

Union Pacifics North local is headed home on its turn out of Bloomington, Illinois, as it rolls across the diamond at Chenoa, Illinois and the crossing of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway. ST... (more)

What turned out to be a treat for the photographer was more of a trick for the crew of Halloween Day's Canton Cannonball. Upon arrival Monday, crews could not get the train moving due to ground r... (more)

The former Louisville & nashville 4140 sails above two crappie fisherman on Lake Decatur, on Tuesday evening on this former Baltimore & Ohio line. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

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)

Pioneer Railcorp mechanic Nick Troutman, who could be considered a caretaker of the railroads classic Funits, fixes a loose connection on the lit Holiday Wreath on the nose of 1752, as children te... (more)

Bloomer Line leased GP15-1 is on its first test run. The LTEX 1413 and the Bloomer 7561 depart with 32 loads at Cropsey. STEVE SMEDLEY

Alliance Grain Company is the owner of this Plymouth locomotive, sitting on what was once part of the Wabash mainline through Gibson City, Illinois. While the Bloomer Lines red locomotives pull la... (more)

The Canton Cannonball climbs a short hill between slides, on the return leg of the run to Glasford, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

IC 1009 South works drifts between Cornland and Buffalo Hart, Illinois with the Farmersville coal empty, at dusk.

The Union Pacific Railroad's LSF 54, known as the South Local, is backing back down to the mainline at Lincoln, Illinois on Sunday 1-21-2007. The local is on the Havana District, a short two mile... (more)

Illinois Railway's Peru to Zearing local is running late on Friday afternoon, making for nice lighting as the train heads North west out of Ladd on its run to Zearing and the interchange yard with... (more)

The photographers son, Sam Smedley, poses with the Peoria & Western Railway coal train, stalled on Rawalts Hill East of Canton, Illinois with the classic power of FP9A, GP8 and four GP20R's The tr... (more)