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It wasn't a railfan trip, but we saw some trains.
We traveled on I-90 from Wisconsin to South Dakota,
and exited into some cities along the way.
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The SPAM museum in Austin, Minnesota,
was really good.
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And they had several model displays of rail cars.
| The Albert Lea depot still stands. |
| a red HELM and yellow GMTX in Albert Lea |
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Blue Earth has their Green Giant statue.
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And you can only get Blue Earth Dirt fudge in Blue Earth.
| And I didn't look at whose railroad runs here now, but the power is colorful. |
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I didn't know where any trains were in Sioux Falls, but there was a street detour on the west side of the city, and it put us next to the Ellis and Eastern locomotives by a quarry. |
| And the South Dakota State RR museum (in Hill City) has a model railroad with a display of a Sioux Falls quarry. |
| I felt we left the Midwest when we got to the Missourri River. |
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The ex-Milw brige, then DME, now . . . . whose? . . . . is impressive, although it is rarely used. I should have tried the Lewis and Clark scenic overlook exit, but we flew by so fast on I-90 at 75 mph. |
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The house specialty at Wall Drug,
a roast beef plate.
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A DME unit was parked next to the Wall Drug and city parking lot, and I practiced and wasted a lot of time taking a pole camera picture. This end of the railroad is now the Rapid City, Pierre, and Eastern. |
| Looking east or north in Wall. . . . . . I would guess this is wheat country. |
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Looking west. I think Wall is at the top of a hill climb, and maybe the locomotive came in on an eastbound and is left here to go back west? |
Here's a link from late in May 2014 of the new orange paint of the new RCPE.
wrote in June, 2014
