Dakota & Iowa ethanol local on its northbound run from Sioux City to Hawarden is seen twisting through the Big Sioux River valley south of Hawarden.

Dakota & Iowa ethanol local on its northbound run from Sioux City to Hawarden.

Today's rock train out of Dell Rapids, SD has 3 SD40's and a SD39 for power and 95 loads. Here the whole train can be seen as the rock train approaches Fairview. The train is running right along t... (more)

With 95 loads, these 4 SD's are working hard to climb this short grade south of Beloit. The train is running along the Iowa-South Dakota boarder as they make their way south towards Sioux City. Th... (more)

With 3 units on the front and one on the back, the D&I heads for Sioux City as they past MP 5 which is 5 miles north of Elkton, SD. At Elkton the D&I will get on the BNSF's Aberdeen Sub for the re... (more)

With the SD's showing up from Colorado, the GP 9's on the Dakota and Iowa have either been stored or mainly pushed into yard service. What 8 GP's used to do 4 SD's now are getting done on the rock... (more)

The D&I's rock train is about to stop at the diamonds in downtown Sioux Falls as they past over the famous falls. The train is operating over the BNSF Madison Branch and will then operate over BNS... (more)

Dakota & Iowa's ethanol local crosses the Big Sioux River just north of Hawarden on its return trip to Sioux City.

Passing the Milwaukee Road era station sign, D&I's ethanol local heads south from Hudson to Sioux City.

Dakota & Iowa loaded rock train stuggling upgrade out of Canton behind two SD39s, a GP9, and a GP20.

This is ex-Milwaukee Road track as evidence by the old MILW sign at Chatsworth. The D & I local is 19 miles from the junction with the BNSF at Elk Point, SD and still 38 miles from their yard in S... (more)

The Dakota and Iowa local is about to cross from Iowa into South Dakota in the next few miles. The train is passing thru the last town in Iowa til they reach Sioux City. This train runs over the B... (more)

Finally on the moved out of Haywarden, the D & I local has 43 loads for 3 destinations when they get into Sioux City. 6 cars for the UP, 20 cars for the CN, and 17 cars for the D & I Yard. The tra... (more)

I was feeling this engineer's pain as we waited for 4 hours to get these 2 GP 39's up and going from the cold weather over night. This isn't the pictures you hope for on your 1st trip to the D & I... (more)

The local crew is having problems with the road power so they grabbed the night job's power to spot empties at the quarry before running downtown to put water on the GP 39's. Here the crew is head... (more)