Black Hills Central GP9 63 crosses a small trestle as it nears the end of the line at Keystone.

Black Hills Central GP9 63 (ex-C&O) leads the first train of the day out of Hill City, emerging into the sun as it approaches the crest of Tin Mill Hill.

On the 6% grade - What a sound!

Black Hills Central 108 gives us a good profile shot as she works the yard at Hill City after a day's runs.

Engines 7 and 108 drift downgrade midway through the trip to Keystone.

When the larger 110 locomotive is down for scheduled work, the Black Hill Central often doubleheads it's two smaller 2-6-2 locomotives in order to make the 6% grade out of Hill City. Here engine ... (more)

Black Hills Central 7 poses in the yard at Hill City prior to the day's excursions.

Black Hills Central 7 steams into the Hill City depot while being admired by the waiting crowd.

Black Hills Central 110 drifts downgrade towards Keystone over a picturesque trestle. Funny, that little boy fishing was there on my last visit also!

The drive wheels off of ex-Peninsula Terminal 2-6-2T 103 sit on a side track; sister 104, which is operational, rests in the background with 2-6-2 No. 7 and 2-6-6-2T 110.

No. 110, a 1928 Baldwin 2-6-6-2T, steams out of the Hill City depot and across a small trestle before attacking Tin Mill Hill.

Between 1957 and 1964, the Black Hills Central ran narrow gauge trains between Hill City and Oblivion via a third rail on the standard-gauge CB&Q Keystone Spur. The final climb to Oblivion was ov... (more)

BHC 110 rolls across the valley near Palmer's Gulch in the scenic Black Hills. This was a former CB&Q spur line between Hill City and Keystone.

This is the firing valve on Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2T 110, built by Baldwin in 1928 for the Weyerhauser Timber Company. Note that long ago, a lazy fireman cut a small notch in the side of the ... (more)

No. 110 is working hard to pull seven loaded coaches up the 4% grade of Tin Mill Hill, in South Dakota's scenic Black Hills.