Finally, after being out of service for seven months, Keokuk Junction Railway's repainted F9B unit is back and paired to make a picture perfect A-B-A set. Tuesday evening the set tows nineteen emp... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A's have been re-united with B unit 1761 after repainting and receiving a new main generator. LaHarpe, Illinois shop forces also spent several days working on ... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A's have been re-united with B unit 1761 after repainting and receiving a new main generator. LaHarpe, Illinois shop forces also spent several days working on ... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's Eastbound with the A-B-A set of FP9's rolls past the east siding switch at Rawalts, Illinois on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's Eastbound with the A-B-A set of FP9's approaches Main Street in Canton on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's first run of the repainted B (or booster) unit took place earlier than expected due to a power failure on an Eastbounds train earlier in the week. So crews left the train... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's first run of the repainted Bunit took place earlier than expected due to a power failure on an Eastbounds train earlier in the week. With a dead GP20 shoved into the clea... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's A-A set of covered wagons move ballast cars into position as they pass through Canton, Illinois. The loud horns on the units have kids at Main Street protecting their ear... (more)

The Canton Cannonball crawls through the Spoon River bridge, built in 1893, at Seville, Illinois on the former west end of tje Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway. Seville, in western Fulton County, ... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A units lift 30 cars out of the west end of UE siding before heading west into Cuba, Illinois, with 62 cars. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A units roll west into Cuba, Illinois, with 62 cars. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's set of FP9A units are nearing nine years of service. A little worse for wear, the 1750 pulls thirty cars from the west end of UE siding, east of Cuba, Illinois. When the ... (more)

The KJRY F units, once again in A-B-A form, pull a short train from the TZPR yards. The wreath from Santa Train duty appears to be barely holding on.

Peoria & Western's Santa Train heads west through Canton, IL., powered by a pair of covered wagons.

Peoria and Western spent most of Friday July 9th on Ameren's Duck Creek power plant spur retrieving coal hoppers from storage. Photographed about 400 yrds south of Il route 9 with the second pull... (more)