RCPE's Mankato to Aurora turn heads west out of New Ulm with a matching 5 pack of SD40-2s, thundering upgrade with over 100 cars.

M-TRHU is stretched out across the South Dakota landscape as they near Huron.

RCPE 3422 is Westbound towards Huron, SD.

M-TRHU closes down Highway 14 briefly as the cruise towards Iroquois.

The SD40-2s belch exhaust as the engineer grabs another notch.

M-TRHU disturbs the quiet momentarily as it rips through Arlington, SD.

4 RCPE SD40-2s rumble through the South Dakota countryside between Volga and Arlington.

After making a meet at Elkton, the conductor on M-TRHU walks towards the West Siding Switch at Elkton to line his train back on to the main line.

RCPE 3422 and company drag a decent size train along behind them. They've past through Lake Benton, and are not far from crossing the South Dakota boarder.

A quartet of RCPE SD40-2s head West near Tyler, MN.

RCPE SD40-2 #3422, RCPE SD40-2 #6427, and RCPE SD40-3 #3429 provide power to CP 471 as it approaches the Bierce Street crossing in Winona, MN. Photo taken 7/3/15 near MP 310.11 on the CP River Sub... (more)

A Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train rolls past the maintenance shed after a snow storm. 7 inches of snow fell covering most of the line. Temperatures are in the single digits with wind chill down... (more)

Stretched out as they run out their last miles in Rapid City, these guys will turn and head back to Belle Fourche.

These guys waste no time getting out of town! Within 5 minutes of whistling off they were cruising as they dig out of town.

This ain't your dad's C&NW... or maybe it is. There may no longer be green and yellow or blue and gold... but there is fresh orange and yellow and while many upgrades are being made to this area, ... (more)