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» Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern (more..)
» EMD SD40-2 (more..) |
» RCP&E Black hills Sub
» St. Onge, South Dakota, USA (more..)
» October 05, 2019 |
| Locomotive No./Train ID |
Photographer |
» RCP&E 3431 (more..)
» RCP&E MBFRC (more..) |
» Craig Williams (more..)
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| Remarks & Notes |
| On Saturday the RCP&E cabbed a crew from Rapid City to Colony to finish up the night job's work and head south with 68 loads for Rapids. This is the far end of the old DM&E/CNW. This is the Black Hills Sub that runs 74 miles north of Rapid City to 3 bentonite customers at the end of the line in Colony, WY. Bentonite has been called “Miracle Mud” and the “Clay of a Thousand Uses." Wyoming’s bentonite has unique characteristics that it can swell up to 16 times its original size and absorbs up to 10 times its own weight in water due to the sodium instead of calcium found in it.
Here the job is now off a long 10 mph south of Belle Fourche and the 3 SD40's howl as they try to make track speed thru St. Onge. |
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