Dakota & Iowa work train slowly navigates through downtown Sioux Falls on a Saturday morning.

Dakota & Iowa's northbound Ethanol local has just crossed the Big Sioux River which marks the border between South Dakota and Iowa. A rare sight this day is three of the road's small GPs: two GP9... (more)

A southward loaded rock train is about to duck under Interstate 90 at Sioux Falls behind a mix of two SD40-2s spliced by an SD39, and trailed by a GP9.

A sure sign of spring is the start of Dakota & Iowa operating rock trains to support construction projects. Here a loaded train creeps through the BNSF yard in downtown Sioux Falls on a nice earl... (more)

D&I's former Milwaukee Road plow pushes through a cut west of Alcestor on former C&NW track. The rarly used line was opened to facilitate the loading of a grain train at the elevator at Beresford... (more)

D&I plow extra on the rarely used Beresford Branch. This is an ex-Milwaukee Road plow operating on former C&NW track.

D&I is providing storage for a unit train set of coal hoppers on its new passing siding at Chatsworth. During the Christmas 2009 snowstorm that dumped up to 20 inches these cars provided a wind b... (more)

The loading of BNSF shuttle grain trains at Beresford, SD, on the D&I was once common but now happens just a few times a year. Here one is just arriving North Sioux City where it will be interc... (more)

To facilitate a meet at Hawarden, this empty stone train has pulled up the former C&NW branch to Beresford, SD, to clear of the main line so that the ethanol local can head for Sioux City. The tr... (more)

Dakota & Iowa's Ethanol local has just got underway from Hawarden to Sioux City behind the road's pair of former Kennecott Copper GP39-2s.

2 pair of geeps are parked outside the office at Dell Rapids for the evening. Most of these geeps have been stored but traffic levels have been higher this summer so of the geeps are working yard ... (more)

Southbound D&I Herzog rock train destined for interchange to the Union Pacific rounds a curve at Fairview, SD.