NS train 145 heads west at Harristown, Illinois on a warm fall afternoon. STEVE SMEDLEY

Illinois & Midland RS 1325 # 30 may need all the friends it can gather, since it is one of only two ever built by EMD. The Chicago & Illinois Midland owned two RS1325's, 30 and 31 are still in ser... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Northbound 115 train forwards an empty ethanol train towards Peoria and interchange to the Iowa Interstate Railroad, as it speeds through a fall scene at Carlock, Illinois on Tu... (more)

Minnesota Dakota & Western S2 # 17 has just made its first move outside the enginehouse and car shops at International Falls, Minnesota. The remote control equipped locomotive has just pulled a ba... (more)

Westbound and west of Bushnell, Illinois, Peoria & Western 1750 joins sister 1752 and PW 2045 on the Canton Cannonball. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Norfolk Southern Railway train D0 55 climbs Bloomington Hill in Bloomington, Illinois with 28 loaded heavy duty flats of Caterpillar Tractor Company equipment. The train is shown at Lincoln Street... (more)

Illinois & Midland RS 1325 31 has a healthy train in tow after the weekend holiday as she heads back home along the Tazewell & Peoria's double track on Monday morning. 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)

A CNIC Farmersville Coal train is shown arriving at Mt. Pulaski, Illinois on Sunday morning, Jan 28, 2007. The coal was loaded at the Crown III Mine west of Farmersville, Illino... (more)

On the last day of March 2010, two Keokuk Junction Railway crews are moving over 300 storage cars to dig out hoppers going back into service. The Peoria & Western set of Funits are in the siding a... (more)

Illinois Railway GP35R leads the Illinois Railway Mt. Morris job away from the printing plant after dropping two boxcars. This Omnitrax Inc. family railroad has assigned the two EMD units to the ... (more)

An Elgin, Joliet & Eastern coal train recieved in interchange from CP at Spaulding heads east for Joliet. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Illinois & Midland SD18 number 61 arrives Springfield, Illinois on Saturday afternoon, December 30th, 2007 after a run from Pekin, Illinois. I&M 61 and sister unit 60 are equipped with dual contr... (more)

Bloomer 7591 Plows Snow SAS The temperature is 0 degrees as Bloomer Line engineer Paul Jones moves 28 grain hoppers for loading at the Alliance Grain Anchor Elevator. Bloomer's first locomoti... (more)

Pioneer RailCorps Tom Black watches as Dave Henry slowly rolls the Westbound Keokuk Junction Railway train into the siding at Good Hope, Illinois for the meet with an opposing train out of Keokuk,... (more)