Westbound "1880's Train" works uphill out of Keystone on the old CB&Q tracks.

Clover Valley Lumber Company #4, a Baldwin 2-6-6-2T Mallet steam locomotive, leads a Sunday excursion train through the crossing at Brightside Yard during a steam locomotive takeover day!

After a big restoration effort, Clover Valley 4 is finally back in operation. Number 4 is a rare logging mallet, and only one of two operating mallets in the world. In this shot, number 4 performs... (more)

After a big restoration effort, Clover Valley 4 is finally back in operation. Number 4 is a rare logging mallet, and only one of two operating mallets in the world. In this shot, number 4 rolls ar... (more)

After a big restoration effort, Clover Valley 4 is finally back in operation. Number 4 is a rare logging mallet, and only one of two operating mallets in the world. In this shot, the cold morning ... (more)

On Sunday, March 10, 2013, Niles Canyon Railway had its annual photo special train. This year, the train featured newly-restored 2-6-6-2T Clover Valley Lumber Co. #4, a 1924 Baldwin product newly ... (more)

The Post Winterrail Photographer Special makes its first runby of the day just east of Niles Depot. This is Clover Valley Lumber Co #4's first announced trip.

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.

This area of the 'Hills was a booming tin mining district in the late 1890s. Today, only the former general store - now derelict - exists at Kennedyville. It can be seen in the trees on the far... (more)

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)

No. 110, a 1928 Baldwin 2-6-6-2T, steams out of the Hill City depot and across a small trestle before attacking Tin Mill Hill.

Between 1957 and 1964, the Black Hills Central ran narrow gauge trains between Hill City and Oblivion via a third rail on the standard-gauge CB&Q Keystone Spur. The final climb to Oblivion was ov... (more)

BHC 110 rolls across the valley near Palmer's Gulch in the scenic Black Hills. This was a former CB&Q spur line between Hill City and Keystone.

This is the firing valve on Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2T 110, built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Weyerhauser Timber Company. Note that long ago, a lazy fireman cut a small notch in the side of the ... (more)