The Rapid City to Huron train is just West of Midland, as it crosses the Bad River on one of the many steel girder bridges located on the RCPE system.
The silence in the ghost town of Powell is briefly shattered by the sound of 645 prime movers slowly dragging freight Eastward.
MRCHU rolls past an old code pole on the PRC.
RCPE 3437 leads MRCHU's slow trudge across the PRC.
MNAU winds its way through the Buffalo Ridge on the final stretch to Aurora, SD late on this extremely muggy evening. The mosquitoes were an absolute pain at this spot, but it was worth the wait.
MNAU heads west out of Springfield.
RCPE 3437 smokes up a storm heading up the grade into Lamberton.
The Mankato to Aurora manifest heads west on the Tracy Sub on a brutally hot and humid summer afternoon.