TP&W's Santa Train slows to a stop, just outside of downtown Canton. The crew stopped to take a lunch break.

The CEFX 9395 brings a Toledo, Peoria & Western train across the Tazewell & Peoria's Illinois River lift bridge at Peoria on Saturday afternoon. The nice looking tunnel motor is leading 40 loads o... (more)

Toledo, Peoria & Western's 2009 Santa Train heads west through Canton, Illinois, powered by the pair of attractive F units.

With the C&O 2716 on the other end TP&W 1500 in its New York Central inspired paint trails one of several trips held that weekend around Logansport.

TP&W was a timetable/trainorder railroad through the 1970's. In the small town of Eureka, which a few years later would become known as the college hometown of a young Ronald Reagan, the Conducto... (more)

With only a couple of months to go before the Santa Fe takeover, the engine pit at East Peoria still yielded quite a variety of units. From left to right: GP40 #1000, GP30 #700, C424 #800, a GP3... (more)

Traffic heads across Washington St. as a transfer job from Collier Yard in Bartonville heads towards the main yards in East Peoria.

A TP&W eastbound heads for Logansport, IN rolling slowly through Kentland, IN over some less than ideal track.

TP&W backs grain hoppers into another delivery to ADM in Peoria.

CF&E does some switching duties downtown Decatur for the Bunge North America Inc. (former Central Soya).

A TP&W windmill parts train, including a solid block of windmill blades, makes its way across the West Main towards the East Peoria yards.

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)

A little foreground clutter? The Kolbe Job heads towards Collier Yards in Bartonville. I ended up with one of the Yukon's new tires throwing a belt. What a swell time it was changing a tire at Dar... (more)

1967 looked like this in hundreds of towns all around the country. But this is 2009 and many of these scenes are gone forever. Thanks to the shortlines for keeping these vintage units alive. This ... (more)

An eastbound TP&W departs the East Peoria yards crossing the NS at Farmdale. No true TP&W power in this consist.