The Rapid City Pierre and Eastern 40s have passed through Verdi, and are now approaching Lake Benton.

RCPE 3427 is about to cross the border between South Dakota and Minnesota on their Eastbound journey to Tracy, MN.

A quartet of RCPE SD40-2s rumble East through Aurora, SD.

With the interchange work done at Florence, all 6K HP are put to use to get the train back up to track speed under the last sunlight of the day.

Viewed from a bluff in The Nature Conservatory's Hole in the Mountain Prairie, the Tracy turn makes its way back west.

Downtown Mankato murals provide a pleasing backdrop as the triweekly Mankato-Aurora train pulls thru town.

The Mankato-Aurora train with its pair of SD40-2's and 39 empties round the sweeping curve coming out of Cobden MN.

RCPE's train Mankato-Aurora coming into the hamlet of Cambria.

RCPE's Tracy turn is headed back west again passing the old grain elevator in Balaton MN.

Now back on home rails after running across CP's Tracy Subdivision, The RSP&E's M MNAU accelerates west through Gavin, Minnesota and passes by the town's grain elevator complex. This job interchan... (more)

The Aurora-Tracy turn has finished its interchange work at Tracy and heads west back to Aurora SD.

A westbound RCPE train awaits a crew to depart while most of the yard tracks are empty.

Near the end of a nice early spring day, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's westbound Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD train pulls down the main at Judson to meet Canadian Pacific's eastbound Tracy, MN t... (more)

After waiting for the Canadian Pacific to deliver a BNSF grain train to the elevator in the distance, the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern's Mankato, MN to Aurora, SD manifest is back on the move on a... (more)

A lone telegraph pole remains in place as milepost 216 along the former Chicago & North Western near Revere, MN as a Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train heads west on a nice spring evening.