The first order of business for the crew of Norfolk Southern train D36 is to clear snow from what will be the trailing locomotove to Decatur, Illinois. Shown at Good Yard in Normal, 3523 had been ... (more)

Union Pacific Railroad LSF 54, the South Local, slowly approaches fallen branches as it enters the Havana District at Lincoln, Illinois. Lead locomotive 1475 was built in July 1971 for the Chesape... (more)

Seventy year old Escanaba & Lake Superior Railroad FP7 600 is on home rails as she passes the Amasa, Michigan depot in the Upper Peninsula on Thursday night, 17 December 2020. The locomotive is on... (more)

The newest arrival at the Monticello Railway Museum is former Chicago & Illinois Midland, then Illinois & Midland RS1325 31, being shoved towards the diesel house on Museum grounds. The locomotiv... (more)

Union Pacific's LSF51 (Bloomington IL to Carlinville IL) local returns East on a short remnant of the former Illinois Central's Havana District in Lincoln, Illinois. The ''South Local's'' only cus... (more)

A restored Nickel Plate Road GP7, 426, is operating over its old haunts as it prepares to back up with a caboose train Sunday, 27 September 2020. Nickel Plate Express operates a Sunday morning ca... (more)

Sticking out like an orange thumb, BNSF Railway General Electric ES44AC No. 5869 sits in the diesel service pit at Galesburg, Illinois on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. BNSF 5869 is one of 10 locomotive... (more)

Twin former Santa Fe GP60's power the Eastbound Peoria Local as seen from the Adams Street overpass on the South side of Peoria on a rainy Tuesday morning, Sept. 9 8 2020. Steve Smedley photo

Illinois Terminal Belt Railroad MP15AC No. Y 1477, a former Southern Pacific motor, spots a bad ordered grain hopper and Tate & Lyle Alco S2 8110 as conductor Blake Dooley works in the siding at W... (more)

In honor of Father's Day, Dad's Mark Ashinhurst and Josh Martin bring D47 Southbound past wind turbines that make up the White Oak Energy Center at Carlock, Illinois. Copyright Steve Smedley photo... (more)

Illinois Terminal Belt Kids Wave A brother and sister wave to engineer Roger Respondek as South bound Illinois Terminal Belt corn loads roll along a 10.7 mile section of the Illinois Central Rail... (more)

Illinois & Midland Railroad 31, one of the two RS1325's built for the Chicago & Illinois Midland, rolls up Petersburg Hill. Steve Smedley

Illinois & Midland Railroad 31 North departs Shops yard with one of the two RS1325's built for the Chicago & Illinois Midland. Sister unit 30 was moved to the Atlantic and Western in North Carolin... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway 2032 leads five units across the Tazewell & Peoria Railroad Illinois River bridge on a turn out of Kolbe station at Mapleton, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway may have stored the A-B-A set of Funits, now for sale, but former Santa Fe GP20's still make for a worthy chase. On Monday, engineer Jeff DuCharme rolls out of the Spoon Ri... (more)