A trio of BNSF geeps, led by 2290, take the local southbound across the gently rolling landscape found between the towns of Redfield and Tulare, SD. The train is continuing toward Mitchell, SD, af... (more)

A collection of BNSF's second generation EMD's, ranging from former SP GP30's to ex-Frisco GP38-2's, are awaiting assignment outside the former Milwaukee Road roundhouse in the Aberdeen Yard.

Blizzard Conditions Blizzard conditions have set in up in northeastern South Dakota has high winds, coupled with sub zero temps, whip freshly fallen snow up into the air. A reactivated SD... (more)

CP's B13 is seen at Blunt, SD, with cars off the Onida Branch. The train is swinging off the wye and onto the main to continue east toward Huron, SD, while January rain clouds that passed through ... (more)

The former DMIR 310 rests unassigned on a spur in Pierre, SD. The only signs that this SD-M no longer belongs on a Minnesota mining railroad is the LTEX lettering peeling up from under the cab.

Yucca plant lines the Pink Lady ballast that helps support the 1939 forged stick rail that the Chicago & North Western Transportation Company laid nearly seven-and-a-half decades ago, which is sti... (more)

DM&E 6051 leads two more SD40's and a long 77 car train through the Bad River Valley at a blistering 10MPH.

DME 4005 and 4001 have a short but heavy #570 in tow through one of the many sags on the PRC.

Crossing the Bad River, DME 6051 and two more SD40's have 77 cars in tow over the undulating terrain of the PRC Subdivision.

DM&E 6051 continues East at 10MPH, while cresting one of the many 1% grades on the ex-CNW trackage.

Thirty cars rock and roll at 10MPH on the 1930's CNW stick rail behind two veteran GP40's.

DM&E's Belle Fourche to Rapid City train works hard up the 1.42% grade out of Sturgis with three EMD's pulling their guts out to maintain double digits in speed.

High above the former DM&E (ex-CNW) and the Bad River, one has to take a minute to catch their breath and take it all in. With 96 cars in tow, CP 571 rolls towards Rapid City on a wonderful wi... (more)

570 nears the abandoned town of Powell South Dakota at the blistering pace of 10 miles per hours.

The true definition of desolate. Not a human in sight for 30 miles. Only hundreds of bolted together steel sticks, forged nearly a century ago and two SD40's running what could be their l... (more)