A chunk of granite that was deposited by the same glacier that formed these hills thousands of years ago keeps watch over the passage of an eastbound RCPE freight train near Lake Benton, MN.
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)
A trio of shiny and clean RCP&E units lead this short train from Belle Fourche to Rapid City, winding through the scenic Black Hills.
The daily HUTR manifest cruises east into the morning sun at Arlington, SD. They'll stop to set out cars for the ethanol plant at Aurora and soybean plant Volga at the small yard at Aurora. They'... (more)
RCPE 3426, 3422 and 3428 westbound at Iroquois, South Dakota.
A rare trio of RCPE SD40s make their way east along The Wash past the former home of the George Ziegler Candy Co. where it once stood watch over the Milwaukee Road's Reed Street Yard. Now, this b... (more)
A bright foreigner runs point on the day's 470 mixed freight manifest as they pull out The Wash to head south on the C&M Sub
A pair of Rapid City units bend south at Grand Ave as they ready for work in Muskego Yard. Off to the right in this shot, and operating today as WSOR's North Milwaukee Sub, is the former Milwauke... (more)
Milwaukee gets a rare visitor. Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern Dash-2 in freshly repainted colors grinds up the grade southbound on the C&M Sub.
