A 61-car Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Blue Train on Rail America's Toledo, Peoria & Western rolls slowly across Farmdale trestle and the Norfolk Southern's Peoria District at East Peo... (more)

Elgin Joliet & Eastern SD38-2 661 is working with two IC GP38-2's as she leads a switching move on the Amboy District at Clinton, Illinois on Sunday May 31, 2009. The J's SD38-2 locomotive fleet h... (more)

Brothers Dave Henry, in the 1752, and Doug Henry, in a troublesome last unit, have the 67 car cut rolling through the S curve on the power plant spur as they approach Illinois Rt. 9. STEVE SMEDLE... (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)

Peoria & Western Railway engineer Dave Henry begins to work his power of FP9A, GP8 and four GP20R's on a 135 car loaded coal train recieved from BNSF at Darst Street on the south side of Peoria Sa... (more)

Peoria & Western Railway engineer Dave Henry runs engine light with six units on the way to retrieve an empty coal train stored at the Duck Creek Power Station south of Canton, Illinois. The crew... (more)

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)

Peoria & Western Railway runs a 130 car empty coal hopper train out of storage in Canton, Illinois on a windy Saturday April 25, 2009. Engineer Tom Black is notching out his power of GP8 GP20 FP9A... (more)

''The Loop'' was an Amtrak operation that was aimed at drawing Chicago Springfield traffic. Here she is arriving Bloomington Union Depot after meeting train 300, at far right. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

A little foreground clutter? The Kolbe Job heads towards Collier Yards in Bartonville. I ended up with one of the Yukon's new tires throwing a belt. What a swell time it was changing a tire at Dar... (more)

My Thursday off work began with the I&M 60 heading south for Havana with a handful of cars. The railroad has replaced several trestles and culverts, along with cleaning out the ditch between Power... (more)

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

Wisconsin Central dispatcher John Leopard has lined his last train into the Stevens Point yards at the end of his overnight shift this Thursday morning. Train LO18 and crew has been at it all nigh... (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)

Union Pacific train M ASBN conductor walks ahead of the stopped train in order to flag a highway crossing at the north end of the siding at McLean, Illinois on another typical spring day in Illino... (more)