Dakota & Iowa rock loads curves south with aggregate and rip-rap loads of Sioux Quartzite.

Mallard ducks ignore the train on a cold autumn afternoon at Falls Park. Dakota & Iowa GP50s 2512 & 2513 ease across the Big Sioux River with a long string of empty gons and hoppers heading back t... (more)

A magnificent fall day is about to end as the DAIR Stone Train passes south of Hawarden, SD en route to a night time arrival in Sioux City, IA.

The Rock Train continues south from the quarry in Dell Rapids, SD. Here it's passing the elevators in Hudson, SD.

The Rock Train hauls stone from the quarry in Dell Rapids, SD for the LG Everest Co. Here it's passing under 57th Street south of Sioux City, SD.

The Rock Train hauls stone from the quarry in Dell Rapids, SD for the LG Everest Co. Here it's passing by an abandoned elevator in Renner, SD on it's way to Sioux City, IA.

The Rock Train hauls stone from the quarry in Dell Rapids, SD for the LG Everest Co. Here it's passing through downtown Baltic, SD on it's way to Sioux City, IA.

Dakota & Iowa RR power awaiting its next assignment at Dell Rapids, June 1988.

Our last shot of the chase and possibly the best, the Dakota & Iowa southbound rock train passes through some beautiful scenery in western Iowa.

In a late afternoon sun, a D&I empty rock train crosses the Big Sioux River at Falls Park on its return trip from Sioux City to Dell Rapids.

D&I SD39 4027 leads an all-EMD quartet charging up a 1 percent grade out of the Big Sioux River Valley in Sioux Falls. The train is hauling rock from the quarry in Dell Rapids. It has a BNSF track... (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)

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.

Dakota & Iowa SD39 #4027 leads a worktrain through Sioux Falls.