On 4/15/15, Pan Am Railways' Office Car Special was operating a return trip from East Deerfield Yard. The crew's last duties for this day were to coast through Lowell Yard and meet a live re-crew ... (more)

Seeing Blue. On 4/15/15, Pan Am Railways' Office Car Special was operating a return trip from East Deerfield Yard, back to Rigby Yard. After a live recrew in Lowell, MA, the OCS continues eastboun... (more)

Canton Cannonball crosses the Spoon River near Seville, Illinois with Classic Cabs leading.

OSR 6508 and 1401 idle at the Woodstock station while the crew is off getting Timmies for lunch. The former past of 6508, while it was at the Waterloo St. Jacobs railway is just barely showing... (more)

The photographers son, Sam Smedley, hands up Gatorade and candy bars gifted to the crew during a slow paced chase westward at Cuba, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

The photographers son, Sam Smedley, hands up Gatorade and candy bars gifted to the crew during a slow paced chase westward at Cuba, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball works a 79 car train westbound as it nears Good Hope, Illinois and a meet with an eastbound out of Keokuk, Iowa. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball rolls across the rebuilt Spoon River crossing at Seville, population 9, as the train nears Kiki Hollow. Steve Smedley photo

Engineer Doug Henry backs his train towards the Hollis Pass while working a set of eighty storage tank cars. Normal operations are a Monday run westbound, that will wait till Thursday and more car... (more)

Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Railway FP9 #1101 and the rest of the train sit on the newly completed La Selva Beach Bridge during the reopening ceremony of the newly completed bridge! This Bridge wi... (more)

After the derby had ended and the top brass had flown back to head quarters, the Norfolk Southern Office Car Special begins it's journey back to Altoona to sit until it is called up for action aga... (more)

Algoma Central FP9 1750, sits in late afternoon sun at Hawk Jct, ONT. 9/23/1995

The best part of winter......plow extras on the Ontario Southland!

The colorful nose of Kansas City Southern FP9 KCS 1 shines in the morning sun at Kansas City Union Station, Missouri, on the morning of October 26, 2013.

Dave Henry has his two FP9A's and GP20 2003 busting through what a snow plow has left alongside Trivoli Road as a train of new crude oil tank cars head West of Glasford, Illinois, and toward stora... (more)