With a lot of slow miles behind it from Rapid City an eastbound train waits for another crew to bring it over the next leg of the trip to Huron. The tracks to the east are in better shape with a 4... (more)

RCPE 6411 rolls West, a few miles East of Pierre.

DMIR 310, a rebuilt SD18 classified by Missabe as an SD-M, gets a new lease on life at the elevator complex in Pierre, SD, handling switching chores as needed. Pierre is served by the Rapid City, ... (more)

The Huron to Rapid City wayfreight waits for a new crew approximately half way through it's journey.

RCPE 3432 is on the point of MHURC 31 laying over in Pierre for the afternoon. The train will leave later in the evening for a JC Siding meet with an eastbound MRCHU.

With intense thunderstorms moving in from the southwest, the RCPE crew prepares to depart Pierre.

RCPE's eastbound Rapid City to Huron manifest waits at Pierre for a new crew to take it east to Huron on a hazy July morning.

RCPE eastbound M-RCHU pauses at Pierre, SD, to switch the grain elevators and to swap crews at midnight. Me and my dad were exhausted, having left our house at 5 to fly out of Atlanta that morning... (more)

After sitting in the yard in Pierre since 5 AM, July 9th's M-HURC finally got a crew to take it west on the PRC around 9 PM. Here, the train is seen in downtown Pierre, crossing a small bridge and... (more)

Rapid City Pierre and Eastern's MRCHU waits for a crew at the east end of the South Dakota Capital city of Pierre.

DME 6085 rests at Pierre as the lead motor on CP's 570. This motor started out as QNSL 206, then CP 5402 before arriving on the DME roster. Pierre is a crew change point for trains travelling on t... (more)

The former DMIR 310 rests unassigned on a spur in Pierre, SD. The only signs that this SD-M no longer belongs on a Minnesota mining railroad is the LTEX lettering peeling up from under the cab.

Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern's westbound train strains over track in need of tamping and alignment a dozen miles east of the state capitol of Pierre, S. D. The rain on Sept. 18, 1995 doesn't help ... (more)

With two leased ex-CP SD40-2s, CP 6077 in the lead, a westbound DM&E freight crosses the Missouri River at capitol city Pierre, S.D. on Oct. 4, 1999, headed for Rapid City.

A Paducah rebuilt SD10 and a GP40 and 2 other motors lead an eastbound ten miles east of state capitol Pierre and are turning northward to leave the Missouri River. The crew will tie up at Huron ... (more)