Originally built for the Southern Pacific, a former Arizona Central SD40M-2 leads a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train across southwest Minnesota on a perfect late summer evening.
Just after the sun dipped below the horizon, an eastbound Twin Cities & Western train makes its way along the Minnesota Prairie Line between Fairfax and Gibbon, MN.
In a panned photograph, LTV Mining (former Erie Mining Company) EMD F9A No 4212 leads an empty ore train west through Cramer, Minnesota, on September 24, 1994.
As prairie grasses and wildflowers sway in the breeze, a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train negotiates the undulating track just west of town where the railroad crosses Plum Creek.