Ellis & Eastern number 37, a GP10, leads the morning run across residential Phillips Avenue in Sioux Falls.
Complete with a brass bell, Ellis & Eastern No. 7 brings empty cement hoppers into Sioux Falls for interchange to BNSF. We were here for the Dakota & Iowa, but the E&E was a very pleasant surpris... (more)
In a fairly rare meet, the southbound Dakota & Iowa Rock Train meets BNSF grain train G CATKAL9 07. As soon as the rock train passes & releases his warrant, this grain will start it's journey fro... (more)
Just outside of Sioux Falls, a pale face invades indian country. Fortunately, this is now a good thing for industries, their employees and especially for railfans.
An Ellis & Eastern sand train rolls over BNSF trackage through the industrial area in Corson, SD. In the trees behind the engines is Midwest Railcar Repair's large maintenance facility.
OLS attired 6902 leads two other CNW SD40-2s on the local that ran from Rapid City to Belle Fouche. I believe that DME now owns this line?
A deadhead move of the DM&E business train heading for the state capital city of Pierre, South Dakota and a Governor's special.
An SD39, SD40-2 & GP20 kick up grain dust as they drag a rock train over Dakota & Iowa trackage. Luckily, he came in between grain trucks dumping at the elevator.
The Ellis & Eastern Mine Run departs the sand pit at Corson, SD. The train will run over BNSF trackage tights to the cement mixing plant in Sioux Falls.
Madison Sub local heading back to Sioux Falls from a trip to service the ethanol plant at Wentworth.
Eastward E&E empty sand train on the BNSF trackage rights used to reach the sand pit at Corson. Crossing the Big Sioux River.
Eastward train no 276 skims across Lake Preston behind an assortment of SD40-types on a fine Columbus Day 2010.
Just over the MN/SD border, this manifest train is rolling up track behind them for an eastbound train in Minnesota.
An SD70ACe leads a coal train past the site of an abandoned Army munitions depot at Igloo, S.D., just south of Edgemont. Nice and quiet here, except of course, when a coal train attacks the eastwa... (more)
Dakota Rail GP9 #326 leading a short southbound train near Wilmot, SD // May 1985
