The photographers son, Sam Smedley, hands up Gatorade and candy bars gifted to the crew during a slow paced chase westward at Cuba, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

The photographers son, Sam Smedley, hands up Gatorade and candy bars gifted to the crew during a slow paced chase westward at Cuba, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball works a 79 car train westbound as it nears Good Hope, Illinois and a meet with an eastbound out of Keokuk, Iowa. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway's Canton Cannonball rolls across the rebuilt Spoon River crossing at Seville, population 9, as the train nears Kiki Hollow. Steve Smedley photo

Engineer Doug Henry backs his train towards the Hollis Pass while working a set of eighty storage tank cars. Normal operations are a Monday run westbound, that will wait till Thursday and more car... (more)

Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay Railway FP9 #1101 and the rest of the train sit on the newly completed La Selva Beach Bridge during the reopening ceremony of the newly completed bridge! This Bridge wi... (more)

After the derby had ended and the top brass had flown back to head quarters, the Norfolk Southern Office Car Special begins it's journey back to Altoona to sit until it is called up for action aga... (more)

Algoma Central FP9 1750, sits in late afternoon sun at Hawk Jct, ONT. 9/23/1995

The best part of winter......plow extras on the Ontario Southland!

The colorful nose of Kansas City Southern FP9 KCS 1 shines in the morning sun at Kansas City Union Station, Missouri, on the morning of October 26, 2013.

Dave Henry has his two FP9A's and GP20 2003 busting through what a snow plow has left alongside Trivoli Road as a train of new crude oil tank cars head West of Glasford, Illinois, and toward stora... (more)

After three hours of switching, the ethanol empty train has been put away in Hollis Pass, and now a train of brand new crude oil tank cars head South at Mapleton, Illinois, and toward storage near... (more)

Rolling towards Iowa Junction on the south side of Peoria, Illinois, an 88 car empty ethanol storage train is on the move towards the Illinois River crossing at Peoria. Steve Smedley photo

Peoria is known for Caterpillar tractor, and in the last nine years, covered wagons. The storage train is on the move towards the Illinois River crossing at Peoria. Steve Smedley photo

Keokuk Junction Railway begins to move an 88 car empty ethanol train for storage on the LaHarpe to Lomax section of its former TPW lines. The train is just under way after pumping air and walking ... (more)