Only an hour and a half left until midnight. Boy, this is cutting it close for Midweek Photos! OK, I'll go ahead and put a couple of shots up. It snowed a little today, but I had no train available when it was coming down the heaviest. 
That's the way it goes. It will melt off tomorrow. The Dakota & Iowa RR is ramping up again. They are a shortline that mostly hauls quarry rock along with some ethanol. They will start running at night again later in the summer when it gets hot. And that's about it. My wife caught me sneaking out last Saturday morning saying, "And where do you think YOU'RE going, buster?" Only the way she said it, it wasn't really a question. I got pushed into helping do yard work. It got up to 71 degrees and was a perfect day. The next day the temp dropped and it snowed a bit again, but I was basically out of time by the time church was over. This weekend I intend to head back out to the middle of the state for another crack at the DME (Dakota, Minnesota, & Eastern). Got to catch that one before it's gone!
1. DAIR train at Baltic, SD/Big Sioux River returning to Dell Rapids with empty hoppers. I've tried to catch this one at night, but everytime something has screwed it up: wind picks up, water ices over, whatever. Maybe I should start calling this "Heartbreak Pool."
2. BNSF Marshall sub, s/b grain train at Sioux Center Iowa, in light snow. Got that one today!
3. BNSF grain train on Canton SD wye, with cut off power from another grain train. Shot last fall, with vintage 1942 Leica & Leica 35mm lens, Ilford HP5.
Kent in SD
