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)

A set of 4 locomotives leads a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern grain train. The first 3 locomotives are former DME/ICE engines but the fourth is a GP38 that was brought in after Genesee & Wyoming too... (more)

A set of 4 locomotives leads a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern grain train. The first 3 locomotives are former DME/ICE engines but the fourth is a GP38 that was brought in after Genesee & Wyoming too... (more)

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

Numerous family/railfan vacations over the years allowed me a lot of time to photo the CNW in the Black Hills area. The Western Division GP35's with their roof mounted air tanks and big fuel tanks... (more)

CP's Belle Fourche Turn, led by a trio of ICE SD40-2's, eases out of Rapid City westbound with a lengthy train.

CNW 1768 on the PM switch job crosses a small trestle as it heads from the roundhouse to the yard for an evening of work. The nice looking unit in good paint was rebuilt and renumbered in November... (more)

A machinist works on the air system of DME 6075 prior to its departure that evening on the turn to Crawford. Who knows what the future holds for this track and employees now that CP wants to rid i... (more)

This veteran SD40-3 receives some attention prior to working the turn to Crawford later that evening.

A Soo Line SD60 rests near the former C&NW roundhouse in Rapid City.

CNW 4101,4549 head west with 28 cars at Rapid City. The 4101 was Ex RI while the 4549 was an original CNW unit rebuilt in 1980 at Oelwein shops. The CNW had placed some welded rail through Rapid C... (more)

The CNW lines in western SD were powered by a large group of GP35's for quite a few years. Near the end of the 35's reign I shot this westbound departing Rapid City. Power was 861, 862, 4531, 852,... (more)

CNW 856,851,815,4116,4148,4506 have arrived at Rapid City and await a new crew to move on toward Chadron. The 815 is pouring out some bluish-white smoke even at idle. It has been a stormy, windy d... (more)

CNW had quite a group of GP35's assigned to it's western area. The ones with large fuel tanks and top mounted air tanks were real common on the lines that radiated out of Chadron NE. This eastboun... (more)

CNW 4303 at the Rapid City Roundhouse.