Monticello Railway Museum's Illinois Central GP11 8733 makes a fine sight as it shoves away from the museum grounds with storage tank cars, after a museum crew set out the IC 6071, donated by CN r... (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

The railfans are out in force, on a windy and cold Saturday as Keokuk Junction's spotless set of F units and repainted caboose PREX 3 roll west towards the next stop on the KJRY Santa Train, of B... (more)

Atlanta Fire Department's Pierce Sabre Engine 28 has just been washed and detailed by firefighter Kyle Combs, as Union Pacific train M ASBN blasts across Vine Street in the central Illinois town l... (more)

Illinois Central Gulf train 33 comes down the runner in Bloomington, on its twice weekly run back from Chicago. The ICG had done its best to rid itself of traffic on the former GM&O lines. The en... (more)

Wisconsin Great Northern is another excursion train operator that is making an extra buck storing over 300 tank cars on its former Chicago & North Western segments between Hayward Junction (its co... (more)

Its a sweltering August evening, as Southern Pacific 7493 south departs Bloomington, Illinois. Everything but the track in this photo is gone. Union Depot, the Front Street overpass, and BN Target... (more)

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)

With the addition of Kettle Falls International GP38-3 2256 and Illinois Railway GP35R 3500, it appears that the Illinois Railnet's B23-7 reign of ''burble'' may be over on the Mt. Morris (Illinoi... (more)

A Union Pacific Railroad Southbound train, led by a Norfolk Southern locomotive, is about to cross the diamond at BN Target on the west side of Bloomington, Illinois. Another train, on the Norfolk... (more)

Illinois & Midland's RS1325 30 passes a farm pond with Canada geese as the train returns to Powerton yards at Pekin on Monday morning after a quick trip to Havana. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Norfolk Southern 4001 and 4000, are returning from Peoria and meeting a morning sunrise at Carlock, Illinois. The two Progress Rail PR43C's are making a first run paired together, Caterpillar powe... (more)

Union Pacific train M BNAS (BLOOMINGTON-ALTON SOUTHERN) sports the Mopac and Chicago & Northwestern Heritage units as crew pulls south awaiting a signal at Bloomington, Illinois on a fantastic spr... (more)

Norfolk Southern train D49D rolls towards a trackside defect detector as it nears Yuton, Southbound early Friday morning August 14, 2009. The two Caterpillar powered Progress Rail PR43C's have a... (more)

Bloomer Shippers Line engineer Paul Jones heads North with 25 empty cars to be loaded at the end of the in service portion of the railroad at Cullom, Illinois as an early morning sun begins to bur... (more)