Pioneer Railway F units lettered for the Keokuk Junction Railway are approaching La Harpe just before sunset at one of the many ubiquitous grade crossings along the former TP&W mainline.

Keokuk Junction Railway's B unit is missing from the classic A-B-A lashup as a former CSXT GP16 fills in. The Westbound train crosses the Spoon River Bridge on Thursday afternoon. Steve Smedley

Keokuk Junction Railway's B unit is missing from the classic A-B-A lashup as a former CSXT GP16 fills in. Steve Smedley

Keokuk Junction Railway's Westbound is running late this Friday, Feb. 2, 2017 as engineer Randy Bennett has a nice roll on the short train at Sciota, Illinois. Steve Smedley

Keokuk Junction Railway 1752 West rolls along next to the former location of Marietta siding as blowing snow rolls through the valley with an air temperature of 6 degrees above zero. Steve Smedley... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway engineer Jeff Rhoades creates a mobile snow squall as he operates FP9 1752, F9B 1761 and FP9 1750 in A-B-A form trailing GP20 2003 Westward at Cuba. As in years past, the C... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway's FP9A 1752 works Collier yard as it rolls past Keystone Steel & Wire. Steve Smedley photo

The KJRY Santa Train heads west, approaching the town of Breeds.

The 2017 KJRY Santa Train sits in Breeds while all the children get a tour of the caboose and the lead locomotive.

Keokuk Junction Conductor rides a cut of cars making a pickup at the Tazwell and Peoria Yard in Peoria. Union Pacific former C & NW bridge is in background.

Three Keokuk Junction Railway F units and a Pioneer Railcorp GP20 are building their outbound train in the small yard at La Harpe, IL, prior to heading east towards Peoria on the former TP&W. Some... (more)

Crew will switch out the GP-20 and the three F's will head to interchange at East Peoria.

Passing through a long “tree tunnel” approaching milepost 120 between Sommer/Hollis and Kolbe, Illinois, is a westbound Keokuk Junction Railway freight on April 7, 2016. Two EMD FP9s (Nos. 175... (more)

On March 8, 2017 the Keokuk Junction Railway's freight out of Mapleton, Ill., soars over the Spoon River with the F-unit A-B-A set and a special treat, PREX SW1300 1301, in the Fulton County villa... (more)

KJRY's A-B-A F unit set marches west for La Harpe in the late Spring afternoon. The power spend the night there and return east to Mapleton the next day.