After spending all day putting their train together in Watertown, the Watertown Local is finally on their way toward Willmar, MN. They'll only make it as far as Appleton before running out of tim... (more)

Black Hills Central #110 headed into Keystone, SD

A Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train rolls past the maintenance shed after a snow storm. 7 inches of snow fell covering most of the line. Temperatures are in the single digits with wind chill down... (more)

A set of 4 locomotives leads a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern grain train. The first 3 locomotives are former DME/ICE engines but the fourth is a GP38 that was brought in after Genesee & Wyoming too... (more)

A set of 4 locomotives leads a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern grain train. The first 3 locomotives are former DME/ICE engines but the fourth is a GP38 that was brought in after Genesee & Wyoming too... (more)

Stretched out as they run out their last miles in Rapid City, these guys will turn and head back to Belle Fourche.

These guys waste no time getting out of town! Within 5 minutes of whistling off they were cruising as they dig out of town.

This ain't your dad's C&NW... or maybe it is. There may no longer be green and yellow or blue and gold... but there is fresh orange and yellow and while many upgrades are being made to this area, ... (more)

The Belle Fourche turn runs through a very varied route, from the rolling hills seen here just out of Belle Fourche, to the mini-mountains near Sturgis and the urban area in Rapid City. The area t... (more)

Enginer has his engines in Run 8 as they slog through the hills of South Dakota. Huge mini-mountains rise to the rear as an old mile marker still remains.

I would have taken blue and yellows, but a pair of fresh RCP&E units were hard to beat! The pair is seen here pulling hard as they trundle over a bridge in Sturgis, nary a motorcycle to be seen.

Powering around a sweeping curve west of the small town of Twin Brooks, SD, a westbound empty ethanol train behind three Norfolk Southern EMDs is starting the climb to Summit on the BNSF's ex-Milw... (more)

Even though the newly formed Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern has been in existence for a few months, the local out of Brookings appears to be on somewhat of a same schedule as when the CP owned the l... (more)

Rapid City to Pierre train leaves Philip on a foggy morning with a new crew.

You never know what you'll find in the roundhouse! Prairie Village, Herman & Milwaukee 0-4-0T No. 11 and 2-foot-gauge "Wilhelmine Viktoria" No. 5 are stored awaiting repairs in the back ... (more)