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Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern: July Freight Trains
Filmed different days in July 2024.
Coming in the summer month of July is the Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern Railroad. Based in Rapid City, South Dakota, the railroad is one many short lines owned by Genesse and Wyoming. Formed in 2014, the line was purchased from the Canadian Pacific, that owned the line of the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern. Today, RCPE continues to haul freight throughout South Dakota and parts of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Minnesota. The film includes shots in Rapid City, Piedmont, Summerset, Black Hawk, and Whitewood. There are even a few bridges trains cross as well as going through a tunnel beneath Interstate 90.
Enjoy the film.
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Black Hills Central: Evening Cab Ride with 108
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Filmed July 25, 2024. There's a number of people who love riding trains. However, there are many railfans and enthusiasts who love to ride in the cab of locomotive. For here, it's cab ride on the Black Hills Central locomotive 108, a 1926 Baldwin-built 2-6-6-2T. In this video, you will see many aspects during the ride, though not all of it. It includes inside the cab, the Black Hills wilderness...
Black Hills Central: Midsummer Steam
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Filmed July 17-18, 2024. It's already midsummer and the Black Hills Central Railroad continues to steam through the season. The sound of the chuffing and the puffing of the smoke bring many tourists and rail enthusiasts far and wide. For the midsummer trains, the engine pulling them is number 110, a 2-6-6-2 saddle tank locomotive built by Baldwin in 1928. Shots of the train include two roundtri...
Black Hills Central: July Evenings With 108
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Filmed July 10 and 13-14, 2024. What would make a good July evening than a good train run? That is what the Black Hills Central does during a lot of the summer season. For these trains you see here, the locomotive is pulled by engine 108. 108 is a Baldwin 2-6-6-2 saddle tank engine built in 1926 for the lumber industry. Now it runs regular trains in the Black Hills, along with its sister 110. T...
Black Hills Central: 4th of July 2024
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Filmed July 3-4, 2024. In the hills, many towns don't shy away from celebrating the 4th of July. Many visitors would travel to the hills to enjoy many things and festivities for this time. They can even take a train ride for their vacation. The usual regular season rides for this time are pulled by engine 108, a 2-6-6-2 saddle tank built by 1926. For this video, most shots are on the 4th as wel...
Union Pacific: Southeast Wyoming Big Boy Tour
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Filmed June 30, 2024. Thundering down the Wyoming plains is the Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 on the start of its Westbound Tour. Built in 1941, 4014 is one of many Big Boys built for Union Pacific's heavy freight trains, mostly up the mountains. In 1960s, the Big Boys were withdrawn from service and 4014 was preserved at the RailGiants Train Museum in California. In 2013, the Union Pacific reaqui...
Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern: Spring and June Trains
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Filmed different days in April-June 2024. Rapid City has a lot of railway history. Today, the railroad known as the Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern rolls through there and currently takes freight trains from there to various places in the state as well as a couple of states like Minnesota, Wyoming, and Nebraska. The Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern was created in 2014 as one of many branches own...
Black Hills Central: Early Evening June Trains
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Filmed June 13, 22, and 26-27, 2024. In June of the summer season, the Black Hills Central would start their four roundtrips from Hill City to Keystone. The last trip of the day would leave Hill City at 5 pm and return at 7:15 pm. However, this video includes several shots of the 5 pm one way through the Black Hills Forest in the early evening. The weather is mostly sunny but also can be cloudy...
Black Hills Central: Cloudy, Foggy Evening
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Filmed June 20, 2024. Throughout the day, it was cloudy and foggy in the Black Hills. However, trains on the Black Hills Central keep puffing, come rain or shine. On this day, regular season trains are pulled by engine 110, a 2-6-6-2T locomotive built by Baldwin in 1928. This video shows the early evening train going from Hill City to Keystone, the turnaround on the other end, and shots going b...
Black Hills Central: Father's Day Weekend 2024
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Filmed June 15-16, 2024. Father's Day Weekend begun. There are many places on the weekend that folks with fathers and grandfathers flock to and the Black Hills Central Railroad is one of those places. For the weekend, trains are pulled by engine 108, a 1926 Baldwin-built 2-6-6-2T steam locomotive. This film shows the train during the early evening on June 15th and most of the day on Father's Da...
Black Hills Central: Steaming Into Summer
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Filmed June 9, 2024. It was the first day of four round trips from Hill City. For that day, three enclosed cars were taken off and were replaced with open air cars for the summer season. The first summer season trains are pulled by engine 110, a 1928 Baldwin-built 2-6-6-2T locomotive. A regular season veteran since 2001, 110 was fired up for the first time around the first weekend of June 2024....
Black Hills Central: Memorial Day 2024
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Filmed May 27, 2024 (Memorial Day). Memorial Day Weekend is the start of three round trips for the Black Hills Central until the second weekend of June. Regular trains are pulled by 108, one of the Baldwin 2-6-6-2 tank engines operating on the Black Hills Central. It was a sunny day as the film shows the train trekking and chuffing through the hills. Enjoy the film.
Black Hills Central: Start of the Season 2024
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Filmed May 13 & 20, 2024. It's the first month of the season for the Black Hills Central a.k.a. the 1880 Train. The first regular train rides from Hill City to Keystone are pulled by engine 108, a 2-6-6-2 articulated tank engine built by Baldwin in 1926. Regular season rides start with one trip for a week to two trips until the end of May where more rides are scheduled. While the season technic...
Black Hills Central: Number 104 in 2018-19
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Filmed 2018 and 2019 by iPhone. Black Hills Central number 104 is a 2-6-2 saddle tank engine built by Baldwin in 1926. Starting its career in state of Oregon, 104 worked for the Silver Falls Timber Company and the Peninsula Terminal Railroads in Portland. In 1965, 104 and its sister engine 103 were purchase by the Black Hills Central Railroad. While 103 was in storage and used for parts, 104 co...
Black Hills Central 7 Short Special
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This short video is dedicated to the oldest engine of the Black Hills Central a.k.a. 1880 Train. Built in 1919 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, it started work for the timber industry for the Ozan-Graysonia Lumber Company, then sold to Prescott and Northwestern in Arkansas in 1938. In the early 1960s, it was purchased by the Black Hills Central Railroad where it started hauling tourist trains. It a...
Durango & Silverton: 2024 Winter Photographer's Special
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Durango & Silverton: 2024 Winter Photographer's Special

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  • @bradhardy2629
    @bradhardy2629 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

    In about 4 years you'll have the Ring neck reclaiming their yard in Rapid city.

  • @RCPERailWatch
    @RCPERailWatch 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video I got to catch 3423 in downtown going for belle fourche like 3 weeks ago

  • @RCPERailWatch
    @RCPERailWatch 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice video u doin any more RCPE in rapid city again soon?

    • @sdhillsrailroader
      @sdhillsrailroader 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah, I'm currently filming in Rapid and a few other places outside of there.

    • @RCPERailWatch
      @RCPERailWatch 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@sdhillsrailroader sounds Great can't wait to see it soon I haven't been out there for a while to catch the Belle Fourche turn or the MRCHU/HURC

  • @user-gk8gg1zt7l
    @user-gk8gg1zt7l 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Nice video, like ! ! ! ! !

  • @gmaneis
    @gmaneis หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well done! Might have enjoyed a drone shot or two, and maybe some onboard shots, but for track side only, you did a nice job setting up your shots. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it.🙂