RCPE 2087 hangs out near the Huron station sign at their yard between switching duties. The fresh looking unit has been around a while, starting life as IC GP40 3053, built in February 1967. It is... (more)

Black Hills Central GE 80 tonner is parked next to their tourist passenger train at Hill City, SD. The train on the left had recently arrived from its round trip to Keystone pulled by steamer no. ... (more)

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)

This Rapid City to Huron train is about 15 miles into their trip from Rapid City to Phillip for the next crew change. The crew got on at Box Elder and has been slowly working east for the past 2 h... (more)

I was watching the weather and seen that there was maybe a chance for some drop under light at sunset. Well we chased this eastbound Rapids City to Huron train from Van Meter to east of Wendte bef... (more)

GP40 no. 2085 shares space at Genessee & Wyoming's Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern roundhouse at Huron, SD. The bright orange colors replace a long line of history at this location. Prior owner Dakot... (more)

Fort Igloo The bridge with the flaking bright orange paint from which I took this photo was the main entrance to Fort Igloo. In the early 1940s prior to Pearl Harbor it was almost inevitab... (more)

RCPE 4365 along with an ex SP Tunnel Motor that was working on the ex Kyle.

RCPE 2085 at Huron, SD.

The late afternoon sun shines on the nose of the empty D&I rock train as it comes around the wye and off of the BNSF's Aberdeen Sub. and onto home rails at Elk Point, SD.

A couple of sucker holes rewarded us with a few sunny shots late in the day of the empty Dakota and Iowa train just north of Sioux City. We're in the parking lot of Park Jefferson Speedway for thi... (more)

Todays return to the Dakota and Iowa Railroad rewarded us with some interesting skies, for example, seen here as 2505-2506 sit after finishing work in the small yard at Hudson, SD. We had almost b... (more)

Black Hills Central Railroad 108 awaits a hand signal from the brakeman giving it the go ahead to reverse and then pull forward to couple up to its coaches on the last sunset train of 2020