On the way from Keystone back to Hill City
The crew of No. 7 shuffle hoppers in the downtown yard.
An empty ethanol train has just entered South Dakota as it rolls through the large cut at Big Stone City. It will drop a large portion of its train just ahead in Milbank before continuing on to A... (more)
Three Norfolk Southern EMDs bring a short train of ethanol empties across the South Dakota prairie near Bristol. After dropping some of their cars in Milbank, the balance of the train is headed f... (more)
The westbound Watertown Local works its way across the eastern South Dakota countryside between Stockholm and South Shore behind three Cascade Green GPs.
A Paducah rebuilt SD10 and a GP40 and 2 other motors lead an eastbound ten miles east of state capitol Pierre and are turning northward to leave the Missouri River. The crew will tie up at Huron ... (more)
110 is a 2-6-6-2 under a full head of hissing steam as it goes over the nearby creek. It has left the station and is beginning the climb up the 4%-6% grade out of Hill City, South Dakota, the inf... (more)
The morning run leaves Hill City and heads for Keystone with a train load of tourists. 110 is a 2-6-6-2 Mallet under a full head of hissing steam. It is about to begin the climb up the 4% - 6% rid... (more)
Former Milwaukee Road 554 working on the DM&E at Huron, SD in Sept. 1989
An Ellis & Eastern crew works the downtown Sioux Falls yard at Eighth Street. Number 7, an SW1200, and Number 17, an SW900, handle the duties today.
A clean unit in a sea of graffiti. But it better watch out, that graffiti man on the side of the mechanical refer looks like its about to tag the units front pilot.
Ellis & Eastern No. 7 charges up the hill through central Sioux Falls.
