Milepost 3.8: Backlight at Palmer Gulch. The 5PM trips on the Black Hills Central Railroad are an interesting challenge for photographers. The lower sun angles produce beautiful light, but... (more)

A Dakota & Iowa rock train departs Dell Rapids on a beautiful fall morning in October 2021.

First light of sunshine has just peaked over the horizon as L-TWI672 heads across the fields of eastern South Dakota on the Watertown Subdivision with SD60M 1462 leading GP60M 129. This job goes w... (more)

After a pickup at Ortonville, and then 3 hours of work at Big Stone City, L-TWI661 puts the throttle into notch 8 as they finish getting off the Big Stone Branch back onto the Appleton Subdivision... (more)

Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2T No. 110 rolls downgrade out of Oblivion with a late afternoon run to Keystone.

The 3024 and 3 other lead the southbound rock train towards Sioux City. The train passes this old elevator at Renner about 5 miles from Sioux Falls. At Sioux Falls the train will meet an empty roc... (more)

The Monday's rock train out of Dell Rapids started pulling around 7:45 am from the East Pit. Here the job pull down to the West Pit to pickup the rest of the loads before heading towards Sioux Cit... (more)

One thing that is crazy is all the abandoned houses and cars that are rotting away out here. The Rapid City to Huron east train pokes along at 10 mph as they make the last 18 miles into Pierre. Th... (more)

The Belle Fourche to Rapid City turn has just a few miles to go before the trip is complete.

The Ringneck & Western storage train briefly disturbs the peace and quiet of these farm animals, as they slowly trudge East. In the distance, you can see the lights of the MOW hi-rail truck that i... (more)

WAMX engines 4275 and 4272 are staged East of Presho. Shortly, they'll be fired up, and will run towards West towards Vivian to pull the last of the storage cars off of the line.

DAIR 3028 leads a train over the Big Sioux River.

A southbound Dakota & Iowa Railroad rock train from Dell Rapids arrives in Sioux Falls, crossing the diversion canal for the Big Sioux River near the airport. The wind was remarkably absent on thi... (more)

While working west on our trip we stopped by the roundhouse at Huron. Huron has been the base for operations for many years for the railroads that have owned this railroad across South Dakota. Now... (more)

I was watching the weather and seen maybe there was a chance drop under light might happened on our trip home. We chased this eastbound Rapids City to Huron train from Van Meter to east of Wendte ... (more)