A songbird perches on a telegraph pole that dates back to days of the Chicago & North Western as a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train traverses the rolling Minnesota countryside just eas... (more)

After pausing to pick up a lengthy string of cars from the siding here, a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train snakes out of Cobden, MN in some of the last light of the day. The curves her... (more)

After stopping to pick up a long cut of cars from the siding at Cobden, a westbound RCPE trackage rights train accelerates toward Springfield in some of the last light of a long late spring day.

The tranquility of a Saturday evening in small town Minnesota is briefly disturbed by the passage of a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern trackage rights train. The red wood structure in the d... (more)

A westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train passes the old elevator and former Chicago & North Western station in downtown New Ulm, MN on a fine spring evening. The CPKC sign in the distance is... (more)

A lengthy westbound RCPE train curves through the scenic hills of the Buffalo Ridge just south of Lake Benton, MN. Just ahead, they will curve to the northwest and head toward the South Dakota bor... (more)

After sitting overnight at the siding at Florence, MN, a westbound RCPE train has a new crew and is on its way toward Aurora and Huron, SD, seen crossing a small trestle just east of Tyler on this... (more)

Viewed from a bluff in The Nature Conservatory's Hole in the Mountain Prairie, the Tracy turn makes its way back west.

RCPE's Tracy turn is headed back west again passing the old grain elevator in Balaton MN.

The Aurora-Tracy turn has finished its interchange work at Tracy and heads west back to Aurora SD.

A westbound RCPE train awaits a crew to depart while most of the yard tracks are empty.

I grew up consuming a steady diet of telephoto smashes of SD40-2s in my favorite books and magazines, so I never pass up the chance to make another one. In this case, it was four of them blasting ... (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 trio of RCPE SD40-2's have the LBFRC underway on the return trip to Belle Fourche. The train is coming out of the northern edge of the Black Hills with a train of empties heading back for more l... (more)