Resting on a Sunday morning.

A Ellis & Eastern train of cement hoppers heads over the Big Sioux River.

Twenty street crossings in less than two miles on 100-pound rail dating to 1927. That’s today’s Ellis & Eastern grinding away on a former Chicago & North Western branch through the residential... (more)

The newest member of the Ellis & Eastern diesel fleet hits a dip in the track as it exits the bridge crossing the Big Sioux River in downtown Sioux Falls. The engine is a GP38-2. The bridge was bu... (more)

Ellis & Eastern number 37, a GP10, leads the morning run across residential Phillips Avenue in Sioux Falls.

Complete with a brass bell, Ellis & Eastern No. 7 brings empty cement hoppers into Sioux Falls for interchange to BNSF. We were here for the Dakota & Iowa, but the E&E was a very pleasant surpris... (more)

An Ellis & Eastern sand train rolls over BNSF trackage through the industrial area in Corson, SD. In the trees behind the engines is Midwest Railcar Repair's large maintenance facility.

The Ellis & Eastern Mine Run departs the sand pit at Corson, SD. The train will run over BNSF trackage tights to the cement mixing plant in Sioux Falls.

Eastward E&E empty sand train on the BNSF trackage rights used to reach the sand pit at Corson. Crossing the Big Sioux River.

Ellis & Eastern"s switch run is interchanging cars with the BNSF at the downtown yards using SW900 No.17 and SW1200RS No. 7.

A rare winter run to the sand and gravel pit at Corson occured on Feb 9, 2010, as the E&E moved some cars around that were shopped for repairs durring the down time afforded by the winter slowdown... (more)

The Ellis and Eastern has loaded their 22 car full of sand and now are heading back towards Sioux Falls, SD. The E&E uses BNSF trackage rights to gain access to this mine at Corson. Couple times a... (more)

The Ellis and Eastern rock train is parked for the night at their mine on the east side of town. In the morning this job will run out to Corson to load at the mine there. Ellis and Eastern uses BN... (more)

Ellis & Eastern sand train departs the pit at Corson with 22 loads for the materials yard at Sioux Falls behind the road's pair of former IC/CCP GP10s. At this point the E&E uses trackage rights ... (more)