The westbound tri-weekly Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train that brings traffic from the Union Pacific in Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD is nearly on home rails as it will soon leave CPKC's Tracy Subdi... (more)

RCPE MMNAU rounds off of the CP and onto home rails where track speed will pick back up to 40 and these guys will have a clear shot for Aurora.

At the far end of the CP Tracy Sub is train 470 beginning its trip from Tracy to Chicago. This is old DM&E trackage that Hunter Harrison sold off in 2014 to the Genesee & Wyoming. RCP&E inbound tr... (more)

After completing their work in Tracy, the crew of MMNAU takes their train West.

RCPE 3423 and company negotiate the siding at Tracy.

MMNAU is approaching Tracy where they will stop to dig a no bill car out of the Westbound train.

A westbound RCPE train rolls through downtown Tracy, MN. Some of the buildings in the background have seen the passing of many trains, going all the way back to Chicago & North Western days when t... (more)

A couple of horses pause from taking a drink to cast a curious eye toward the strange bearded man holding a camera nearby. The RCPE's westbound Mankato to Aurora manifest slowly rolls toward Tracy... (more)

The Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern's M MNAU pulls to a stop as it approaches Tracy, Minnesota at the ESS Tracy switch where they will meet the tied down M AUMN. The conductor is riding up to throw ... (more)

A former Soo Line steam locomotive calls this small museum in Tracy, MN home. It's been modified with an enormous balloon stack, renumbered and lettered for the Chicago & North Western, and had it... (more)

RCPE 3427 has crossed the property line, and is now on Canadian Pacific trackage.

Tracy is the terminus for CP's operation on the Tracy Sub and some CP lite power will tie onto what will become train #470 while a RCPE westbound holds the main.

The Aurora-Tracy turn has finished its interchange work at Tracy and heads west back to Aurora SD.

A westbound RCPE train awaits a crew to depart while most of the yard tracks are empty.

With a former UP snoot nose SD40-2 on the point, the RCPE's M AUMN train to Mankato holds the main in Tracy, Minnesota just east of the split between RCPE and CP trackage. This train is waiting fo... (more)