A trio of RCPE SD40-2's power the LBFRC through St. Onge and toward Rapid City.

An RCP&E freight train provides a splash of color in Western Nebraska in the winter time.

A trio of RCPE SD40-2's power the LBFRC out of Belle Fourche and toward Rapid City.

A trio of RCPE SD40-2's power the LBFRC out of Belle Fourche and toward Rapid City.

A four pack of SD40-2's lead the RCPE's LBFRC down the Black Hills Sub and toward Rapid City.

A four pack of SD40-2's lead the RCPE's LBFRC past the Black Hills National Cemetery south of Sturgis and toward Rapid City.

A four pack of SD40-2's lead the RCPE's LBFRC through Sturgis past the former CNW Depot and toward Rapid City.

A four pack of SD40-2's lead the RCPE's LBFRC through Sturgis and heading for Rapid City.

RCPE 6401, originally built for the CNW, leads the RCPE's LBFRC down down the former CNW Colony Line and along the Black Hills at Whitewood, SD.

RCPE 6401, originally built for the CNW, leads the RCPE's LBFRC down down the former CNW Colony Line outside of Belle Fourche.

The Rapid City yard engine has tied-up early in anticipation of the July 4th holiday shut-down.

The daily HUTR manifest cruises east into the morning sun at Arlington, SD. They'll stop to set out cars for the ethanol plant at Aurora and soybean plant Volga at the small yard at Aurora. They'... (more)

The MHURC sits idle outside of Rapid City, SD. Waiting for the nightly yard job to bring this train into the "spacious" RCP&E yard sometime later that night.

A pair of Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern SD40-2's lead the Dakota Junction-Rapid City train north through Wayside, Nebraska, just south of the state line with South Dakota, on July 9, 2018.

After meeting a westbound west of here in Elkton, SD, the daily HUTR is now in Minnesota, and passing the beautiful Buffalo Ridge near Lake Benton.