Looking more like a model locomotive, the last operating Union Pacific Centennial DD40X, UP 6936 East, is seen in a pan shot from an ice covered farm road just east of Round Grove, Illinois on Feb... (more)

ON a lazy Sunday afternoon in October 1977, a muscle car sits at a set of fuel pumps in Bellevue, Iowa, as a set of Milwaukee Road Funits trundle down the street with a long grain train from Iowa ... (more)

One of the two Electro-Motive Division RS1325’s ever produced lies derailed in Pekin, Illinois on Friday, March 28, 2014. Illinois & Midland Railroad # 30, built in the fall of 1960 for Chicag... (more)

Norfolk Southern SD50 5440 busts through a pile of snow at a crossing in Carlock, Illinois on Thursday Feb 3, 2011 following the February blizzard that blanketed much of the midwest. The former Co... (more)

Wreck crews from Hulcher wave to Amtrak train 311, ''The Loop'', as it rolls slowly past derailed South Local at the elevator track lead in McLean, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

CN 2192 Takes one for the Team CNIC's Peoria Local slams into drifts between Delavan and Green Valley, Illinois as the crew radios the ''diesel doctor'' to report a cracked conductors side window... (more)

Union Pacific 6414 with heavy wreck damage in the UP Adams Street yard in Peoria. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

The Bloomer Shippers Line Railroad used two Geeps to plow out the entire railroad Friday. Former Northern Pacific 7591, the Bloomer's first loco, gets some attention as trackworkers use scoop shov... (more)

Indiana Boxcar's Olin Locomotive Works is nearing completion on a rebuild of former Louisville & Nashville Railroad SD40 1245, built in 1970. The locomotive is framed in the cab window of former E... (more)

Wisconsin Great Northern 423 passes the VFW Hall's M47 Patton, as the train backs a long train of storage tank cars on its former Chicago & North Western branch between Trego and Hayward Junction... (more)

Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad has repainted its former Algoma Central SD40-2, shown moving storage tank cars in preparation of its first service on the Hayward Branch as part of a switching ag... (more)

UP 4141, the locomotive that pulled the funeral train for former President George H.W. Bush is on a tour of the Union Pacific system and is shown trailing 1943 on train MPRAS. The SD70ACe, feature... (more)

If you look close you can see Caterpillar yellow behind the hood doors on PRLX 4300, another Progress Rail Services Caterpillar powered locomotive is testing out of the Norfolk Southern Railway's ... (more)

With a crescent moon shining over them, the crew of the ''Canton Cannonball'' works at sunset in LaHarpe, Illinois switching out a train bound for points east. Engineer Doug Henry will be on duty... (more)

Norfolk Southern 4000, a Progress Rail PR43C that has arrrived Good Yards in Normal, Illinois on August 11, 2009, returns to the yard after working MidWest Fiber warehouse. The Caterpillar powered... (more)