Four SD40-2s disturb the peace and quiet of the small town Saturday evening in Sanborn, Minnesota as they hustle westbound with a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train.

In a couple of previous posts, I showed a couple of eastbound trains coming through downtown Springfield, MN, illustrating the view before a... (more)

Four SD40-2's roll a westbound quickly through the curves of the slight line relocation west of Cobden, MN that was the result of an overpass replacement project back in Dakota, Minnesota & Easter... (more)

A low angle view of an SD40-2 as a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train sits, tied down and waiting for a new crew on the east side of Tracy, MN.

An eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train briefly disrupts life in the quiet small town of Springfield, MN on a nice July morning.

A westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train rolls through downtown Sleepy Eye, MN, passing the former Chicago & North Western depot that has been nicely restored and maintained.

Two SD40-2s lead a westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train along Canadian Pacific trackage through the tiny town of Essig, MN on a beautiful fall evening.

A quad set of RCPE SD40-2s thunder through New Ulm on the tri-weekly Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest. The train was making good time on this day, and would make it to Aurora before dark.

A westbound RCPE train crosses the Redwood River and climbs toward the MN 23 and BNSF overpasses at Florence, MN.

Exhaust pours out of a quartet of Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern SD40-2s as they accelerate out of Tracy, MN with a westbound train.

A westbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train rolls by the Highwater Ethanol facility just west of Lamberton, MN.

After their pickup at Sioux Valley, the bakers dozen of matching EMDs continue the trip west to Huron with a wave from the engineer to boot.

13, count em, 13 EMDs are making a pick up of cement empties off the Sioux Valley Line between Volga and Brookings. This is power from 3 different trains making its way back to Huron.

After combining both the daily train from Tracy with the every other day train from Mankato, seven SD40-2's get underway with a westbound train for Aurora and Huron, SD.

An eastbound Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train briefly skirts alongside Lake Yankton as it passes the home of someone who clearly has an affinity for the railroad, evidenced by the Griswold signa... (more)