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By:Rick Morgan
Dates:1/1/1990 - 12/31/2013
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CNW at Belle Fourche
Title:  CNW at Belle Fourche
Description:  Two CNW geeps sit at the small engine facility at Belle Fourche SD in July 1989. It would go to VMV and has been since reported with both MRIX and IBCX.
Photo Date:  7/16/1989  Upload Date: 12/19/2009 11:28:09 PM
Location:  Belle Fourche, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 4532(GP9R)
Views:  616   Comments: 2
CNW GP7 4155
Title:  CNW GP7 4155
Description:  Lots of miles on this one- CNW GP7 4155 at Belle Fourche SD
Photo Date:  7/16/1989  Upload Date: 8/9/2010 9:03:37 PM
Location:  Belle Fourche, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 4155(GP7R)
Views:  360   Comments: 0
Geeps bb the roundhouse
Title:  Geeps bb the roundhouse
Description:  Two CNW Geeps sit by the Rapid City roundhouse in July 1989.
Photo Date:  7/16/1989  Upload Date: 4/27/2008 10:50:34 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 4562(GP9R)
Views:  537   Comments: 0
Idling at Belle Fourche
Title:  Idling at Belle Fourche
Description:  Belle Fourche was the CNW's small outpost in the western most parks of South Dakota. Here a pair of Geeps idle the time away while awaiting their next call.
Photo Date:  7/16/1989  Upload Date: 4/27/2008 10:50:43 PM
Location:  Belle Fourche, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 4155(GP7R)
Views:  719   Comments: 0
CNW Rapid City Roundhouse
Title:  CNW Rapid City Roundhouse
Description:  CNW's four-stall roundhouse at Rapid City in 1989
Photo Date:  7/16/1989  Upload Date: 12/19/2012 7:36:46 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Track
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Views:  647   Comments: 1
North Western Geep at Quick City
Title:  North Western Geep at Quick City
Description:  CNW GP7 4117 at Rapid City ("Quick City" to Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon)
Photo Date:  7/16/1989  Upload Date: 12/19/2012 7:37:06 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 4117(GP7R)
Views:  226   Comments: 0
Headed for$the Barn
Title:  Headed for$the Barn
Description:  Having dropped their train out of Belle Fouche in the yard, five CNW units are headed for the Rapid City engine facility late in the afternoon of 17 July 1989. Power is a pair of GP35s, three GP9s and a GP7.
Photo Date:  7/17/1989  Upload Date: 3/13/2009 8:01:05 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 862(GP35)
Views:  683   Comments: 0
Light Power in Rapid City
Title:  Light Power in Rapid City
Description:  Six CNW units run light from the Rapid City yard to the engine house under threatening skies
Photo Date:  12/31/1989  Upload Date: 5/20/2011 6:53:17 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 848(GP35)
Views:  526   Comments: 0
CNW SD40-2 6882
Title:  CNW SD40-2 6882
Description:  CNW SD40-2 6882 at Rapid City SD in July 1993
Photo Date:  7/12/1993  Upload Date: 6/21/2013 9:38:36 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 6882(SD40-2)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
DM&E
Title:  DM&E
Description:  A quartet of DM&E power idles at Rapid City; SD40-2 6394 ("City of Sleepy Eye") and old SDs 6621, 6611 and 553
Photo Date:  7/12/1993  Upload Date: 1/15/2008 6:14:48 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  DME 6364(SD40-2)
Views:  894   Comments: 1
Pulling into Rapid City
Title:  Pulling into Rapid City
Description:  Three units bring a CNW toain into Rapid City in July 1993; SD40-2 6818 is followed by GP40 5529 and GP50 5082.
Photo Date:  7/13/1993  Upload Date: 4/27/2008 10:50:22 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CNW 6818(SD40-2)
Views:  641   Comments: 2
The lights are on but nobody's home
Title:  The lights are on but nobody's home
Description:  DME 553 sits east of Rapid City with its lights burning, tied up with no crew waiting for the yard to make room sb that it can come in.
Photo Date:  7/13/1993  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 2:04:23 PM
Location:  Box Elder, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DME 553(SD10)
Views:  431   Comments: 1
DME westbound waiting to enter the yard
Title:  DME westbound waiting to enter the yard
Description:  A DME westbound cools its heels outside Rapid City while it waits for the yard to make space for it. Power today is SD10 553, GP9 1477, SD10 558, SD40-2 6363 and SD9 6613.
Photo Date:  7/13/1993  Upload Date: 2/2/2008 12:09:01 AM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DME 553(SD10)
Views:  1020   Comments: 1
Going to work at Chamberlain
Title:  Going to work at Chamberlain
Description:  Dakota Southern units, in this case a former Long Island C420 (213) and SD7 (522) prepare to move out of their small terminal at Chamberlain SD in July 1993. It looks like the Alco is getting a little bit of attention.
Photo Date:  7/14/1993  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 7:58:31 PM
Location:  Chamberlain, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DSRC 213(C420) DSRC 522(SD7)
Views:  2053   Comments: 4
Paired 70 Tonners
Title:  Paired 70 Tonners
Description:  The Sisseton Southern RR (SSOR) operated the former Milwaukee Road line between Sisseton and Milbank SD from 1987 to 1989. Their two GE 70 tonners were sitting in the Dakota Southern's Chamberlain SD yard in July 1993. 75 was originally built for Iowa's Charles City Western and then worked for the Mariana & Blountstown in Florida before ending up in the Dakotas. The large, obviously homebuilt plow is a nice touch.
Photo Date:  7/14/1993  Upload Date: 3/15/2009 7:58:47 PM
Location:  Chamberlain, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  SSOR 75(70Tonner) SSOR 77(70Tonner)
Views:  819   Comments: 2
DSRC S3 103
Title:  DSRC S3 103
Description:  Dakota Southern Alco 103 sits at Chamberlain on a cloudy day in July
Photo Date:  7/14/1993  Upload Date: 1/23/2008 8:22:05 PM
Location:  Chamberlain, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DSRC 103(S3)
Views:  1016   Comments: 0
DSRC
Title:  DSRC
Description:  Dakota Southern 70 tonner 76 sits at the road's hometown of Chamberlain on the former Milwaukee Road line across South Dakota. As can be seen, this location is a veritable museum of locomotives- note the SD7, C420 and DDA40X in the background.
Photo Date:  7/14/1993  Upload Date: 1/23/2008 8:22:19 PM
Location:  Chamberlain, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DSRC 76(70Tonner)
Views:  876   Comments: 2
Where the Buffalo Roamed
Title:  Where the Buffalo Roamed
Description:  Three DM&E SD40-2s (6359, 6363 AND 6366) bring a westbound across the Dakota prairie and towards Rapid City late on a summer day in 1996.
Photo Date:  8/6/1996  Upload Date: 12/19/2009 11:30:19 PM
Location:  Box Elder, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DME 6359(SD40-2)
Views:  1005   Comments: 2
DME SD40-2s
Title:  DME SD40-2s
Description:  DME 6367 (the "City of New Ulm") and 6360 ("City of Mankato") sit in the Rapid City yard in August 1996.
Photo Date:  8/6/1996  Upload Date: 12/8/2008 8:33:30 PM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DME 6367(SD40-2)
Views:  844   Comments: 1
DME SDs
Title:  DME SDs
Description:  A smart looking pair of SDs switch the DM&E's yard at Rapid City in August 1996
Photo Date:  8/6/1996  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:00:37 AM
Location:  Rapid City, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  DME 559(SD10) DME 560(SD10)
Views:  1677   Comments: 1
Mt Rushmore moving west
Title:  Mt Rushmore moving west
Description:  DM&E 6359, the Mt Rushmore unit, leads a train west toward Rapid City
Photo Date:  8/6/1996  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 8:01:01 AM
Location:  Box Elder, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DME 6359(SD40-2)
Views:  848   Comments: 0
BN coal at Edgemont
Title:  BN coal at Edgemont
Description:  A matched trio of BN SD70MACs (9738, 9630 and 9643) run a loaded coal train east near Edgemont SD
Photo Date:  8/9/1996  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 1:38:57 PM
Location:  Edgemont, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BN 9738(SD70MAC)
Views:  497   Comments: 0
Morning at Edgemont
Title:  Morning at Edgemont
Description:  Four units bring an empty westbound coal train into Edgemont SD in August 1996.
Photo Date:  8/9/1996  Upload Date: 12/25/2009 9:53:48 PM
Location:  Edgemont, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  EMDX 9066(SD60)
Views:  420   Comments: 1
BN EB freight in South Dakota
Title:  BN EB freight in South Dakota
Description:  A freight train slips into Edgemont SD among the constant parade of coal that BN runs. LMX 8509 leads an SD40-2 and B30-7AB.
Photo Date:  8/9/1996  Upload Date: 11/5/2008 9:36:02 PM
Location:  Edgemont, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  LMX 8509(B39-8E)
Views:  662   Comments: 1
Mirror Image
Title:  Mirror Image
Description:  A pair of BN SD70MACs meet at Edgemont SD
Photo Date:  8/9/1996  Upload Date: 1/26/2008 7:01:22 PM
Location:  Edgemont, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BN 9420(SD70MAC) BN 9715(SD70MAC)
Views:  810   Comments: 0
Morning coal
Title:  Morning coal
Description:  Three BN SD70MACs sit at Edgemont with a southbound coal train as they wait for a new crew. At one time Edgemont featured a roundhouse and was the junction for the Burlington's line to Deadwood.
Photo Date:  8/9/1996  Upload Date: 3/7/2008 11:23:15 PM
Location:  Edgemont, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BN 9644(SD70MAC)
Views:  363   Comments: 1
Parade of coal
Title:  Parade of coal
Description:  Edgemont SD sees a constant stream of coal trains out of the Powder River region; BN C30-7 5031 leads four other units as they await their next crew that will take their load of JECX coal east.
Photo Date:  8/9/1996  Upload Date: 3/8/2008 9:26:09 AM
Location:  Edgemont, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BN 5031(C30-7)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
Milwaukee Road depot, Marmarth ND
Title:  Milwaukee Road depot, Marmarth ND
Description:  Former Milwaukee Road depot, Marmarth ND, located along US12 on the east side of town and well away from its original location. As of 1950 Marmarth had four Chicago to Seattle/Tacoma passenger trains daily; the Olympian Hiawatha at 7:23AM (WB), 7:15PM (EB) and the Columbian at 8:15PM (WB), 8:08 (EB).
Photo Date:  6/24/2012  Upload Date: 6/25/2012 7:34:44 AM
Location:  Marmarth, ND
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  361   Comments: 0
BNSF Empty Coal at Mazda
Title:  BNSF Empty Coal at Mazda
Description:  Another empty coal train heads back to the mines at Mazda, ND on the BNSF's former MILW main across the southwest corner of North Dakota
Photo Date:  6/24/2012  Upload Date: 6/25/2012 7:34:57 AM
Location:  Mazda, ND
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BNSF 9206(SD70ACe)
Views:  227   Comments: 3
DPUs at Mazda
Title:  DPUs at Mazda
Description:  Two GEs push an empty coal train past the rugged countryside near Mazda ND
Photo Date:  6/24/2012  Upload Date: 6/25/2012 7:35:09 AM
Location:  Mazda, ND
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BNSF 4412(C44-9W) BNSF 5968(ES44AC)
Views:  277   Comments: 1
Working Grain- Scranton ND
Title:  Working Grain- Scranton ND
Description:  Scranton Grain's GP10 works a cut of cars at the company's elevator on an overcast morning in the extreme southwest corner of North Dakota. The elevator's tracks are 90 degrees out from the BNSF line with the geep facing roughly south.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:17:20 PM
Location:  Scranton, ND
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  ILSX 8353(GP10)
Views:  478   Comments: 2
Reeder Depot
Title:  Reeder Depot
Description:  The former MILW depot at Reeder ND, now located just south of the tracks and about 90 degrees out.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 4:14:42 PM
Location:  Reeder, ND
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  212   Comments: 2
Elevator Complex and Unit, Selby SD
Title:  Elevator Complex and Unit, Selby SD
Description:  The elevator complex at Selby SD along with their locomotive, the former DME 551, which actually has no reporting marks showing and is registered as DME for reference only.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 1:11:23 PM
Location:  Selby, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  DME 551(SD10)
Views:  716   Comments: 1
BNSF 761
Title:  BNSF 761
Description:  BNSF 761, still in Warbonnet, idles at Aberdeen SD
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:33:54 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BNSF 761(C44-9W)
Views:  166   Comments: 0
BNSF 6928
Title:  BNSF 6928
Description:  BNSF ES44C4 6928 sits at the former MILW terminal at Aberdeen SD
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:56:03 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  BNSF 6928(ES44C4)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
CNW Engine House, Aberdeen SD
Title:  CNW Engine House, Aberdeen SD
Description:  The former CNW engine house at Aberdeen, located on the Huron to Oakes ND line. The tracks came up in 1980-82.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 11:40:49 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  411   Comments: 0
M&StL Depot, Aberdeen
Title:  M&StL Depot, Aberdeen
Description:  The M&StL's westernmost line ran from Watertown to Leola SD. They built this nice looking brick depot at Aberdeen to serve the largest city on the route but were never really ever to compete with the Milwaukee Road as far as passenger traffic to Minneapolis. Their daily train to Minneapolis was reduced by 1945 to a mixed which itself was off the schedule by 1950. CNW pulled up the former Louie rails in 1969.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 11:40:35 PM
Location:  Aberdeen, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  401   Comments: 0
DME line through Redfield
Title:  DME line through Redfield
Description:  The depot and grain elevator at Redfield IA, looking southward. This are former CNW tracks
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 4:15:04 PM
Location:  Redfield, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  241   Comments: 0
BNSF on the Old Milwaukee Road
Title:  BNSF on the Old Milwaukee Road
Description:  A trio of NS units lead three BNSF locomotives on a northbound freight passing Mud Lake near Tulare SD in June 2012. This is former MILW trackage running between Mitchell and Aberdeen.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 1:00:23 PM
Location:  Tulare, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  NS 7548(ES40DC)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
South Dakota Wheat Growers 9419
Title:  South Dakota Wheat Growers 9419
Description:  So Dak Wheat Growers SW900 9419 by the elevator in Huron SD; a former B&O unit. The black plastic bucket with an aluminum handle attached is a simple way to cap the stack when not in use.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:17:40 PM
Location:  Huron, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Roster
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Views:  343   Comments: 1
String of Power at Huron
Title:  String of Power at Huron
Description:  Three older EMD SDs are set up move at Huron, SD in June 2012. DME 6071 and 6367 trail.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:35:00 PM
Location:  Huron, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CEFX 3127(SD40M-2)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
Bits and Pieces at Huron
Title:  Bits and Pieces at Huron
Description:  A fascinating collection of odds and ends at the Huron roundhouse. For years Huron was known as the home to CNW's Alco fleet; it's now full of '60s and '70s-era 645-powered EMDs.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:56:19 PM
Location:  Huron, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CITX 2792(SD40M-2) WAMX 4101(SD40T-2)
Views:  652   Comments: 0
Anyone Need an Engine?
Title:  Anyone Need an Engine?
Description:  An EMD 16-645 sits with the hood of what may be ICE 6409 at the edge of the turntable pit in Huron
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:56:32 PM
Location:  Huron, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  301   Comments: 1
Derelicts at Huron
Title:  Derelicts at Huron
Description:  CP SD40-2 5729 has been left in the weeds away from the roundhouse and next to a delapidated grain elevator.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:35:15 PM
Location:  Huron, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CP 5729(SD40-2)
Views:  510   Comments: 3
City Power at Huron
Title:  City Power at Huron
Description:  A neat quartet of CITX/CEFX units await their next train on the DME at Huron SD. CEFX 3163 is followed by 3172, CITX 3026 and CEFX 3128.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 2:56:46 PM
Location:  Huron, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CEFX 3163(SD40-2)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
Shade on a Hot Summer Day
Title:  Shade on a Hot Summer Day
Description:  Temps are approaching the century mark as CHSX GP9U 2256 sits under a tree in Mitchell SD along the BNSF (ex MILW) line.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 1:09:35 PM
Location:  Mitchell, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  CHSX 2256(GP9u)
Views:  552   Comments: 1
Canton SD; Looking East
Title:  Canton SD; Looking East
Description:  At one time Canton SD was an important junction for the Milwaukee Road, with two lines crossing here with routes to Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Madison/Chicago and Mitchell/Rapid City radiating outwards. BNSF and DAIR now provide the service and the eastern route is abandoned. This view looks over the site of the depot, which was moved to another location in town and restored.
Photo Date:  6/25/2012  Upload Date: 6/27/2012 11:40:06 PM
Location:  Canton, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  322   Comments: 0
OVRR GP7R
Title:  OVRR GP7R
Description:  Ozark Valley GP7R sitting in the yard in Chamberlain, SD. OVRR is associated with the BGCM and Dakota Southern. It was transferred from Missouri to South Dakota in 2011.
Photo Date:  6/8/2023  Upload Date: 6/16/2023 2:52:07 PM
Location:  Chamberlain, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  138   Comments: 0
The yard in Chamberlain
Title:  The yard in Chamberlain
Description:  Two units associated with the Dakota Southern sit in the yard in Chamberlain. Even though it's power remains, DSRC was replaced as the operator on this line by WATCO's Ringneck Western.
Photo Date:  6/8/2023  Upload Date: 6/16/2023 2:52:18 PM
Location:  Chamberlain, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  244   Comments: 0
Ballast Train on the Ringneck Western
Title:  Ballast Train on the Ringneck Western
Description:  A single SD40T-2 pulls ballast cars east while approaching White Lake SD on the WATCO-operated Ringneck Western.
Photo Date:  6/8/2023  Upload Date: 6/16/2023 2:52:28 PM
Location:  White Lake, SD
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Views:  112   Comments: 0


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