The morning run leaves Hill City and heads for Keystone with a train load of tourists. 110 is a 2-6-6-2 Mallet under a full head of hissing steam. It is about to begin the climb up the 4% - 6% rid... (more)

It's a 4% upgrade pull out of Hill City, but despite having a full train of 6 cars, No. 110 isn't even breathing hard as it rolls into the cut near the top of Tin Mill Hill.

Ex-Rayonier logging Mallet No. 110 steams upgrade in the cool mist of a Black Hills summer morning. One hundred years ago, Tin Mill Hill was the location of a tin reclamation mill operated by the... (more)

Ex- C&O GP9 63 puts on a good show as it digs in for the 4% grade of Tin Mill Hill.

Black Hills Central GP9 63 (ex-C&O) leads the first train of the day out of Hill City, emerging into the sun as it approaches the crest of Tin Mill Hill.

Weyerhaeuser #110 hauls its 7 car train up the 4-6% grade of Tin Mill Hill. #110 was built by Baldwin in 1928 for Weyerhaeuser's Vail operation where it operated until 1954. At this time it was so... (more)

On the 6% grade - What a sound!

Black Hills Central 108 gives us a good profile shot as she works the yard at Hill City after a day's runs.

Engines 7 and 108 drift downgrade midway through the trip to Keystone.

When the larger 110 locomotive is down for scheduled work, the Black Hill Central often doubleheads it's two smaller 2-6-2 locomotives in order to make the 6% grade out of Hill City. Here engine ... (more)

Black Hills Central 7 poses in the yard at Hill City prior to the day's excursions.

Black Hills Central 7 steams into the Hill City depot while being admired by the waiting crowd.

Black Hills Central 110 drifts downgrade towards Keystone over a picturesque trestle. Funny, that little boy fishing was there on my last visit also!

The drive wheels off of ex-Peninsula Terminal 2-6-2T 103 sit on a side track; sister 104, which is operational, rests in the background with 2-6-2 No. 7 and 2-6-6-2T 110.