Morning blow-down. With Locomotive #108 positioned just short of the the wooden trestle at the north end of the Hill City Yard, Black Hills Central Engineer Cesar and his fireman open the b... (more)

Seeing double. Yes indeed, there are two, big, Baldwin 2-6-6-2T, articulated, compound mallet locomotives steaming in the yard at Hill City, SD this morning. The duty engine for the first... (more)

A Dakota & Iowa rock train departs Dell Rapids on a beautiful fall morning in October 2021.

L TWI6611 02I, the Aberdeen Local rounds the curve into Bristol, SD on a very humid afternoon with BNSF 112, 1616 and 162.

A rock train headed east.

This was a treat - a clean pristine set of SD40-2s that sounded as great as they looked.

L-TWI672 rounds the S-Curve into Stockholm on the way to Willmar.

First light of sunshine has just peaked over the horizon as L-TWI672 heads across the fields of eastern South Dakota on the Watertown Subdivision with SD60M 1462 leading GP60M 129. This job goes w... (more)

After a pickup at Ortonville, and then 3 hours of work at Big Stone City, L-TWI661 puts the throttle into notch 8 as they finish getting off the Big Stone Branch back onto the Appleton Subdivision... (more)

L-TWI661, the Willmar - Aberdeen local thunders west on the Appleton Sub, just about reaching the summit of the uphill climb on Coteau Des Prairies. GP60M 112, SD40-2 1616 and GP60 162 take the he... (more)

After their pickup at Sioux Valley, the bakers dozen of matching EMDs continue the trip west to Huron with a wave from the engineer to boot.

13, count em, 13 EMDs are making a pick up of cement empties off the Sioux Valley Line between Volga and Brookings. This is power from 3 different trains making its way back to Huron.

Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2T No. 110 rolls downgrade out of Oblivion with a late afternoon run to Keystone.

With a severe thunderstorm rolling into South Dakotas Black Hills, the Black Hills Scenic 2:30pm train charges up the steep rain-slick grade cutting through the dense forest.

BHC 63 rests in the Black Hills of South Dakota, sitting only around five miles from both Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse.