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.

After combining both the daily train from Tracy with the every other day train from Mankato, seven SD40-2's get underway with a westbound train for Aurora and Huron, SD.

An eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train briefly skirts alongside Lake Yankton as it passes the home of someone who clearly has an affinity for the railroad, evidenced by the Griswold signa... (more)

RP.net contributor Mike Vandenberg and his son get their shots of a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train as it crosses the US 14 overpass just west of Cobden, MN on Canadian Pacific's form... (more)

The Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest climbs away from the Redwood River crossing at Florence, MN.

A former Union Pacific and Iowa Chicago & Eastern snoot nosed SD40-2 leads the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's westbound train from Mankato across Plum Creek just west of Walnut Grove, MN.

An eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train crosses an irrigation ditch west of Balaton, MN as the sun poke through the cloud cover.

A meet occurs on the IHB in Riverdale as an eastbound IHB 515 Job meets the westbound CF&E road freight. Leading the 515 Job is an ES44AC that was recently purchased by the CN. It still wears its ... (more)

With the train now on their own trackage, MNAU departs Tracy in some beautiful light, with 3465 smoking up a storm. Seems like its trying to imitate the ALCOs that once dominated this line 40 year... (more)

Now on the final few miles of CP trackage, the MNAU heads out of Walnut Grove, home of "Little House on the Prairie". The trees had recently been chopped down along the ROW, giving way for a nice ... (more)

MNAU rounds the curve east of Lamberton

Several of us were out on this beautiful March afternoon to view RCPE's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest. This was my first time actually chasing the RCPE, and I'll definitely do it again!

One thing that is crazy is all the abandoned houses and cars that are rotting away out here. The Rapid City to Huron east train pokes along at 10 mph as they make the last 18 miles into Pierre. Th... (more)

I heard this guy go east about 4am from the tent, but didn't know if they would come back or what. While bumming around chasing BNSF trains we heard him get a warrant from Tracy back to Aurora at ... (more)