The Dakota and Iowa train has set out 40 cars and 2 units to the siding inside the L G Everest Plant at Hawarden, IA. The GP was to protect a Beresford Branch local that would run the following da... (more)

A Dakota and Iowa RR rock train is seen just before sunset near Chatsworth, IA.

The 10 am rock train out of Dell Rapids has just finished splitting their power at Hudson. Now the crew will run to Chatsworth to tie the train down. A Sioux City crew coming with an empty train, ... (more)

The D&I rock train heads south from Hawarden with power now on both ends of this 85 car train. At Sioux City the train terminates in a stub yard so the train will be yarded with the power on the r... (more)

The loaded rock train out of Dell Rapids begins to slow down for their parking spot for the day here at Chatsworth. This crew came out of Dell Rapids after 11am and will park at Chatsworth for ano... (more)

DAIR 2513 leads LHUSC-15 east towards Sioux City.

A five-pack of great looking and always clean Dakota & Iowa power shoves a loaded rock train south over the bridge at Falls Park. The train would be tied down on BNSF tracks awaiting a BNSF cre... (more)

Dakota and Iowa with SD40-2 3028 and GP39-2 2511 parked in a siding near Akron, Iowa.

A Dakota and Iowa empty grain unit train is westbound near Beresford, SD . The D & I received the train from the BNSF at Sioux City. The train moved North on the D & I to Hawarden, IA and then hea... (more)

Newly rebuilt DAIR GP9 2504 sits outside the NRE facility in Dixmoor waiting to be picked up by CSX.

Dakoka & Iowa GP50 2513 sits at NRE in Dixmoor.

This pair of DAIR 45's hauled gravel trains from a pit to the dealer using UP trackage rights.

A Dakota and Iowa empty grain unit train is westbound near Beresford, SD . The D & I received the train from the BNSF at Sioux City. The train moved North on the D & I to Hawarden, IA and then ... (more)

The beginning of the line for 85 cars of quartzite aggregate & rip-rap. Glad the state of South Dakota had the foresight to purchase this line out of the Milwaukee Road bankruptcy.

An old grain elevator, an MOW track cart, jointed rail with some spare sticks alongside. I imagine not much has changed since the Milwaukee Road bankruptcy other than the locomotive paint.