Late Evening at Rapid City
I used to visit Rapid City nearly every summer from the late 70's through the early 90'sand most often was able to work some railroad action into what was a family vacation built around the Black Hills. The CNW was fairly cooperative running towards Belle Fourche in the morning and returning in the late afternoon so I was able to shoot the morning job, do tourist stuff most of the day and return to Rapid and shoot the late afternoon eastbound. With the long summer days this worked out well but I doubt that the "schedule" was conducive to photography during the later fall/winter/early spring. In any case on a 2 train a day railroad you take what you can get and this eastbound was not lit well as it dawdled into town much later than "normal" near sunset. Way short of the usual amount of power found on this line 4308, 6602 and 6621 have 71 cars in tow on May 23, 1985.
Late Evening at Rapid City
I used to visit Rapid City nearly every summer from the late 70's through the early 90'sand most often was able to work some railroad action into what was a family vacation built around the Black Hills. The CNW was fairly cooperative running towards Belle Fourche in the morning and returning in the late afternoon so I was able to shoot the morning job, do tourist stuff most of the day and return to Rapid and shoot the late afternoon eastbound. With the long summer days this worked out well but I doubt that the "schedule" was conducive to photography during the later fall/winter/early spring. In any case on a 2 train a day railroad you take what you can get and this eastbound was not lit well as it dawdled into town much later than "normal" near sunset. Way short of the usual amount of power found on this line 4308, 6602 and 6621 have 71 cars in tow on May 23, 1985.