Canadian National's Peoria Local sails southbound through Emden, Illinois as the photographers long time friend, Rance Grieder gives a friendly wave. IC 1039, the last SD70 ordered by the Illin... (more)

Canadian National's Peoria Local sails southbound through Emden, Illinois as the photographers long time friend, Rance Grieder gives a friendly wave. IC 1039, the last SD70 ordered by the Illinois... (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)

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)

One degree above zero at 23:16 as the inbound and outbound crews trade out with Union Pacific Heritage locomotive CNW 1995 outside the Bloomington, Illinois yard office . Steve Smedley photo

A westbound Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway with a matched set of GP50's rolls through a slow order at Secor, Illinois, Saturday, afternoon, Jan. 11, 2014 near El Paso, Illinois. Steve Smedley ... (more)

Thirty minutes after cleaning snow off the 7591, one can hardly tell its been done as The Bloomer Shippers Line Railroad uses two Geeps to plow out the entire railroad Friday. Engineer Paul Jones ... (more)

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)

A Union Pacific Railroad local works west on the former Illinois Central's Havana District. The UP's South Local is preparing to spot the International Paper Company corrugated box plant at the e... (more)

The very last Missabe painted tunnel motor leads an empty limestone train off Proctor Hill and into Duluth as another Proctor Road Switch waits to head up hill with taconite empties, on a below ze... (more)

Wisconsin Northern Railway builds a train of frac sand while working at New Auburn, Wisconsin the day after Christmas, 2013. Steve Smedley

A Norfolk Southern crew sails southward out of Monticello with the Santa Train from the Monticello Railway Museum on a deadhead move to Decatur. Steve Smedley

A rarely seen aspect of the annual Santa Train out of Decatur, a Norfolk Southern crew and members of the Monticello Railway Museum hand off the passenger set at Monticello early Friday morning. ... (more)

Wabash 1189 and MLW FA2 6789 slowly pull the Monticello Railway Museum's passenger set around the Y from the IC to the NS connection at Monticello, during a Friday morning ferry move of the annual... (more)

Wabash 1189 and MLW FA2 6789 stroll across Lake Decatur with a passenger train from the Monticello Railway Museum, on a final leg of a Friday morning ferry move of the annual NS employees Santa Tr... (more)