BHC 110 carries the last train of the season through the fall colors.

Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern heads west out of Rapid City.

The Hankinson Switch drills Red River Energy's small ethanol plant at the end of CP's Veblen Sub.

The beginning of the line for 85 cars of quartzite aggregate & rip-rap. Glad the state of South Dakota had the foresight to purchase this line out of the Milwaukee Road bankruptcy.

Growing up on the Grand Trunk Western gave me an appreciation for the versatility of the SW1200RS. Here an ex-Central Vermont unit leads an ex-CP SW900 and an old Rock Island hopper.

An old grain elevator, an MOW track cart, jointed rail with some spare sticks alongside. I imagine not much has changed since the Milwaukee Road bankruptcy other than the locomotive paint.

RCPE M-RCHU rocks and rolls along at 10 MPH on the excepted track of the PRC Subdivision at Powell, SD on a hazy afternoon.

Who says South Dakota doesn't have scenery or cool railroads?

The sound was stellar as a quintet of four axles accelerates out of a slow order.

The Appleton sub goes every different direction between Bristol and Andover which makes for all kinds of great spots to catch trains going either direction, including this local for Aberdeen.

RCPE 6416, still in ICE paint, along with two sisters still rocking the old paint job, lead RCPE train M-HURC across the Missouri River bridge in Ft. Pierre, SD. 5 Nikon SB24 speedlights were used... (more)

On CNW's west end GP35 862 enroute from Belle Fourche SD to Chadron NE has hit the dirt north of Rapid City, CNW's preferred emergency contractor Berg & Henn are in the process of putting things b... (more)

RCPE L-BFRC rolls into Whitewood on a sunny Saturday morning with a trio of blue and yellow SD40-2s leading and a heavy train of Bentonite behind.

RCPE 6459 leads train L-HUBL, a local that runs between Huron and Onida, SD. They are stopped to get a track warrant in St. Lawrence, SD, where I found them to start the chase, and saw an old, aba... (more)

After sitting in the yard in Pierre since 5 AM, July 9th's M-HURC finally got a crew to take it west on the PRC around 9 PM. Here, the train is seen in downtown Pierre, crossing a small bridge and... (more)