CB&Q F3 162 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Smithboro Illinois in June 1951. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Night falls over rural Illinois as a northbound auto-rack train for Galesburg meets a southbound local at Smithboro on the BNSF Beardstown Subdivision. Built in February of 1994, BNSF 622 still we... (more)
A pair of former ATSF B40-8Ws, one still in Santa Fe Warbonnet paint, ease their local train onto the Smithboro siding for a meet with a southbound coal train. Even though their duties have been r... (more)
The CTC panel in Smithboro Tower controlled the majority of the Penn Central (ex-PRR) line across southern Illinois from Terre Haute to East St. Louis. At Smithboro, the PC line was crossed by the... (more)
A pair of EMD/Oakway Leasing SD60s are at the point of a southbound coal train.
