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)

Keokuk Junction's spotless set of F units stand with repainted caboose PREX 3 at Cuba, Illinois on December 6, 2014. Children are telling Santa wishes, while engineer Tom Black waits to depart fo... (more)

The CNIC's Farmersville coal empties head for the Crown III mine at Farmersville, Illinois, southbound past the depot the city of Divernon has restored as a local museum. Engineer JD Wright has se... (more)

Halloween Day's Canton Cannonball is two miles from a crew change that normally would have taken place four hours prior. The train suffered a five hour delay due to locomotive issues. The home in ... (more)

The Keokuk Junction crew is working with the Peoria & Western job from Kolbe as they work on replacing storage cars on the old TPW mainline to Lomax. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Illinois Railnet CF 7 # 3 along Water Street and an Illinois River above flood stage in Peru, Illinois.

After almost eight months out of service, Peoria & Western 1750 joins sister 1752 and PW 2045 on the Canton Cannonball. Both FP9A's were out of service together, with the 1752 getting a couple new... (more)

Norfolk Southern's D 47D local, with former Conrail SD50 5415 and a sister, bring a train of used cross ties across College Avenue North bound at Normal, Illinois on Friday Jan. 8, 2009. STEVE S... (more)

Tazewell & Peoria Railroad engineer on GP10 3000 takes hand signals from a crewman on the ground while switching MGP Ingredients Inc. in Pekin, Illinois Riverfront trackage once owned by Conrail.... (more)

The rolling museum that is the Keokuk Junction Railway has the Keokuk, Iowa based crew throttling up at Blandinsville, Illinois with twin GP20's bracketing a rare former Illinois Central Railroad ... (more)

On Halloween Sunday, Oct 31, Norfolk Southern PR43C 4001, A Progress Rail unit, leads the D46D along US 150 west of Goodfield, Illinois. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

NS Illinois Division Santa Train rolls eastward on its return flip to Decatur, on Sunday's first run. Steve Smedley photo

Union Pacific Railroads North Local, is south bound returning to its home base of Bloomington, Illinois as it passes by the beutifully restored depot in Dwight, Illinois on Wednesday September 5, ... (more)

The crew of Norfolk Southern train D46 strolls through Carlock, Illinois aboard a former Milwaukee Road SD40-2. Steve Smedley photo

After a fifteen year all volunteer restoration by the hard working crew at the Monticello Railway Museum, Southern Railway 401 is again under steam. Southern 401 was built in December of 1907. It... (more)