Resting on a Sunday morning.

A Ellis & Eastern train of cement hoppers heads over the Big Sioux River.

A Dakota & Iowa Railroad rock train heads under 57th street bound for Sioux City.

A BNSF Track Measurement train heads over the falls on an early summer morning.

Union Pacific makes a rare appearance in South Dakota as power for the Dakota & Iowa Railroad as it hauls a ballast train behind its usual empty rock cars heading back to Dell Rapids from Sioux Ci... (more)

Mallard ducks ignore the train on a cold autumn afternoon at Falls Park. Dakota & Iowa GP50s 2512 & 2513 ease across the Big Sioux River with a long string of empty gons and hoppers heading back t... (more)

Twenty street crossings in less than two miles on 100-pound rail dating to 1927. That’s today’s Ellis & Eastern grinding away on a former Chicago & North Western branch through the residential... (more)

The newest member of the Ellis & Eastern diesel fleet hits a dip in the track as it exits the bridge crossing the Big Sioux River in downtown Sioux Falls. The engine is a GP38-2. The bridge was bu... (more)

In a late afternoon sun, a D&I empty rock train crosses the Big Sioux River at Falls Park on its return trip from Sioux City to Dell Rapids.

D&I SD39 4027 leads an all-EMD quartet charging up a 1 percent grade out of the Big Sioux River Valley in Sioux Falls. The train is hauling rock from the quarry in Dell Rapids. It has a BNSF track... (more)