Doug Henry has just traded places with his brother Dave, as the second shift takes over on Keokuk Junction Railway 1752 East, about to make a two car pickup from ADM's plant in Bushnell, Illinois.... (more)

Pioneer RailCorps Tom Black watches as Dave Henry slowly rolls the Westbound Keokuk Junction Railway train into the siding at Good Hope, Illinois for the meet with an opposing train out of Keokuk,... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's Eastbound rolls downhill at Marietta, Illinois from the overpass where engineer Doug Henry once spotted an unidentified creature. photo by Steve Smedley

Latham Volunteer Fire and Rescue Fire Protection District has its emergency vehicles parked outside during the 66th Annual Ice Cream Social, as Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway GP38-2 703 heads thr... (more)

Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway GP38-2 703 heads through Mt. Pulaski with seventy two loads and 5 empties, 9388 tons, the train will fall down and stall on Warrensburg Hill in less than an hour a... (more)

A gray locomotive on an equally gray day, Norfolk Southern Monongahela Heritage GE 8025 leads a short empty ethanol train, 65Q, across Martin Luther King Drive in Bloomington, Thursday, July 9, 20... (more)

UP ONCE A FAST 40 SAS Once a ''Fast 40'', bracketed by two Centennial Locomotives and numbered 8037, the locomotive is now in a more pedestrian environment as Union Pacific Railroad SD40-2 rebuil... (more)

CNIC's Peoria Local digs three cars out of a set of grain empties while working on making the J 703 the trailing unit to Pekin this morning. Steve Smedley photo

"Kiki'' the alpaca, is more interested in the photographer, as Wisconsin & Southern Railroad GP38 3802, a former Baltimore & Ohio GP40 rebuild, rolls the Reedsburg to Madison return trip of the ... (more)

"Kiki'' the alpaca, is more interested in the photographer, as Wisconsin & Southern Railroad GP38 3802, a former Baltimore & Ohio GP40 rebuild, rolls the Reedsburg to Madison return trip of... (more)

St Croix Valley Railroad SD45 carbody 1325 gets a roll on a train bound for Hinkley, Minnesita on Wednesday, May 27, 2015. On former Northern Pacific trackage, the view seems to be stepping back i... (more)

The Chicago Railroad Superindendants Association (CRSA) ran their annual excursion using Iowa Pacific equipment, shown departing Bureau Junction, Illinois on the return trip to Chicago. Steve Sm... (more)

While nothing might run like a Deere, the Illinois Railway's Zearing Job makes a leisurly shove to the BNSF interchange at Zearing, Illinois with eleven cars for interchange. Lead GP35 3500 is the... (more)

Canadian National's L555 local sits at the South end of the siding at Stanberry, Wisconsin as a high priority stack train blasts South bound for Stevens Point and eventually Chicago. The action ta... (more)

Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad SD40-2 6006 works the CN interchange at Hayward Junction, Wisconsin. Steve Smedley photo