RCPE 3425 and two other 40's are making good time back to Belle Fourche. Some of the snow in South Dakota hills has managed to hang on, despite warmer weather.
The Belle Fourche to Rapid City turn heads North through the small town of Saint Onge.
A trio of SD40-2s make their way across the South Dakota landscape, just South of Saint Onge.
RCPE 3425 leads the Northbound train out of Rapid City over the steel truss bridge that spans the Whitewood Creek.
RCPE's Belle Fourche to Rapid City turn has found sunlight on their Northbound trip back to Belle Fourche.
The Belle Fourche to Rapid City turn has reached the 10 MPH portion of their Southbound trip, as they roll over Peaceful Pines Road.
RCPE 3435 and the two other units in trail are in notch 8, grinding up the grade on the South side of Sturgis.
The Belle Fourche to Rapid City turn has just about cleared a 10 MPH slow order, and will soon start ripping on them through Sturgis.
I first caught this RCPE train in New Ulm before having to wait out some road construction east of Sleepy Eye. As the fall evening light sweetened even more, I raced to get ahead of them again her... (more)
RCP&E 3463 is about to leave the Canadian Pacific Tracy Subdivision and enter onto DM&E property on the outskirts of Tracy, Minnesota.
RCP&E 3463 rolls down the main in rural Tracy, Minnesota, with a train bound for Huron, South Dakota.
An RCPE manifest heads west through Lake Benton in the morning under ominous skies.
It's always a treat to see an RCPE train west of Tracy in good light. With a grain shuttle train tied down on the siding at Florence, the RCPE's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest is continuing we... (more)
A westbound RCPE train gets underway out of Tracy behind 7 locomotives. The last three are HLCX GP38-2's headed to Huron, SD for some work.
The RCPE westbound road freight slowly makes its way west toward Wall and Rapid City across the South Dakota prairie under bluebird skies.
