Three ICE SD40's take 571 slowly through the hills of South Dakota down a hill and around a curve.

A grade crossing accident in Minnesota delayed the westbound slog of this train so it was able to make an appearance in daylight through Wall, home of the famous Wall Drug Store. At least the leas... (more)

CP bought the DME and wanted to build a track from Wall SD to the Powder River Basin.

Iowa, Chicago & Eastern 6100 (ex- BN 6322) heads through Wall with an early morning train. This DM&E line - lightly used - is rumored to be up for abandonment or sale under current Canadian Pacif... (more)

The Huron, SD, to Rapid City, SD, freight rolls thru the Bad River Valley between Capa and Midland. Not alot out here in this area to see. This end of the DM&E is very remote and way off the beate... (more)

The Huron, SD, to Rapid City, SD, took off from Pierre today around 12:30. Here 4.5 hours later near sunset they are only 40 miles west of Pierre. The PRC is mainly all 10 mph due to track conditi... (more)

The Huron, SD, to Rapid City, SD, freight pokes along the PRC Sub east of Midland. There is alot of heritage in this area as seen by this 1888 ranch sign along the tracks. There is alot of signs t... (more)

The Huron, SD, to Rapid City, SD, freight train rolls west with 70 cars towards next crew change at Philip. This train left Pierre at 09:40, and will do almost 7 hours of 10 mph running to Phillip... (more)

Anyone that has traveled west on highways towards Western South Dakota, probably seen a few of these Wall Drug signs before. Wall Drug has put alot time and money into placing tons of signs to adv... (more)

The Rapid City, SD, to Huron, SD, freight train is doing work at Wall off the siding. This crew went to work at 5am and Rapid City for the trip to Philip today that will take about 10 hours to ma... (more)

The Huron, SD, to Rapid City, SD, freight train rolls west with 70 cars towards next crew change at Philip. This train left Pierre at 09:40, and in 5 hours has only traveled 50 miles. This end of ... (more)

A Soo Line SD60 rests near the former C&NW roundhouse in Rapid City.

A Paducah rebuilt SD10 and a GP40 and 2 other motors lead an eastbound ten miles east of state capitol Pierre and are turning northward to leave the Missouri River. The crew will tie up at Huron ... (more)

STLH 5593 leads B17 on the Pierre Sub just outside of Huron

Time marches on, at a very slow 10 MPH, as STL+H 5593 leads train 470, the Rapid City to Huron train, passed an abandoned farm house near Wasta, SD. The CPR influence has started creeping into the... (more)