A Photographic Extravaganza

Who woulda' thunk, a round trip to Hot Springs, SoDak would yield so many photo opportunities?!

On the way out, I finally did the shot I had long been waiting for:

Ya gotta' love all that machinery behind a GP-30!

The line from the Powder River coal fields passes through Edgemont, SoDak.  All trains stop for a variety of reasons.  Here's what we found in the space of an hour:

(A shovel and a broom, the basic railroad snow-fighting equipment for 175 years.)

On the return trip home, we took a state highway instead of the Interstate.  That was a good idea:

(BIG sky, little train)

So many photons died to catch these events, but they died for a good cause!