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Dakota & Iowa rock loads curves south with aggregate and rip-rap loads of Sioux Quartzite.

The Rock Train hauls stone from the quarry in Dell Rapids, SD for the LG Everest Co. Here it's passing under 57th Street south of Sioux City, SD.

The Rock Train hauls stone from the quarry in Dell Rapids, SD for the LG Everest Co. Here it's passing by an abandoned elevator in Renner, SD on it's way to Sioux City, IA.

The Rock Train hauls stone from the quarry in Dell Rapids, SD for the LG Everest Co. Here it's passing through downtown Baltic, SD on it's way to Sioux City, IA.

Our last shot of the chase and possibly the best, the Dakota & Iowa southbound rock train passes through some beautiful scenery in western Iowa.

D&I SD39 4027 leads an all-EMD quartet charging up a 1 percent grade out of the Big Sioux River Valley in Sioux Falls. The train is hauling rock from the quarry in Dell Rapids. It has a BNSF track... (more)

In a fairly rare meet, the southbound Dakota & Iowa Rock Train meets BNSF grain train G CATKAL9 07. As soon as the rock train passes & releases his warrant, this grain will start it's journey fro... (more)

An SD39, SD40-2 & GP20 kick up grain dust as they drag a rock train over Dakota & Iowa trackage. Luckily, he came in between grain trucks dumping at the elevator.

Dakota & Iowa SD39 #4027 leads a worktrain through Sioux Falls.

Dakota & Iowa work train slowly navigates through downtown Sioux Falls on a Saturday morning.

A sure sign of spring is the start of Dakota & Iowa operating rock trains to support construction projects. Here a loaded train creeps through the BNSF yard in downtown Sioux Falls on a nice earl... (more)

D&I is providing storage for a unit train set of coal hoppers on its new passing siding at Chatsworth. During the Christmas 2009 snowstorm that dumped up to 20 inches these cars provided a wind b... (more)

The loading of BNSF shuttle grain trains at Beresford, SD, on the D&I was once common but now happens just a few times a year. Here one is just arriving North Sioux City where it will be interc... (more)

A late rock train heads out of Dell Rapids at sunset. The train is enroute to Sioux City with 102 loads. 4 SD's will power this train for the 100 mile trip to Sioux City. At Sioux City 13 cars go ... (more)