Ellis & Eastern number 37, a GP10, leads the morning run across residential Phillips Avenue in Sioux Falls.

Complete with a brass bell, Ellis & Eastern No. 7 brings empty cement hoppers into Sioux Falls for interchange to BNSF. We were here for the Dakota & Iowa, but the E&E was a very pleasant surpris... (more)

Eastward E&E empty sand train on the BNSF trackage rights used to reach the sand pit at Corson. Crossing the Big Sioux River.

Dakota & Iowa SD39 #4027 leads a worktrain through Sioux Falls.

Dakota & Iowa work train slowly navigates through downtown Sioux Falls on a Saturday morning.

A trio of GP39s (two EMD GP39-2s and one a GP39V) sit patiently waiting for work.

Ellis & Eastern"s switch run is interchanging cars with the BNSF at the downtown yards using SW900 No.17 and SW1200RS No. 7.

BNSF's Madison turn has just left Sioux Falls as the sun is rising and is en route to switch the ethanol plant at Wentworth.

A southward loaded rock train is about to duck under Interstate 90 at Sioux Falls behind a mix of two SD40-2s spliced by an SD39, and trailed by a GP9.

A sure sign of spring is the start of Dakota & Iowa operating rock trains to support construction projects. Here a loaded train creeps through the BNSF yard in downtown Sioux Falls on a nice earl... (more)

BNSF Madison Turn leaving Sioux Falls just as the sun peaks over the horizon illuminating the falls of the Big Sioux River.

A rare winter run to the sand and gravel pit at Corson occured on Feb 9, 2010, as the E&E moved some cars around that were shopped for repairs durring the down time afforded by the winter slowdown... (more)

The Ellis and Eastern rock train is parked for the night at their mine on the east side of town. In the morning this job will run out to Corson to load at the mine there. Ellis and Eastern uses BN... (more)

BNSF Sioux Falls to Madison turn crosses the falls of the Big Sioux River at Sioux Falls. This is former Great Northern trackage.

D&I loaded rock train crosses the bridge over the Big Sioux River at Sioux Falls. This location is on BNSF's Madison Sub over which the D&I has trackage rights through the north side of the city.... (more)