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By:David Larrabee
Dates:6/18/2011 - 6/18/2011
Album Info:On my recent sojourn to the west I took hundreds of RR related photographs at several dozen locations. I must admit that, despite the 2-6-6-2 on the BHC and all the power & excitement around North Platt, this venue along the Dakota Southern Railroad in south central South Dakota was a hi-lnght. I wish I'd spent another day or so pooking around this inactive line. I found the landscapes with a hidden but intact RR peaking trough here and there quite intreaging. As far as I can glean from the internet it has been a few years since a train passsed over this trackage. A brief history & status of the DSRC is listed on Wikipedia and is worth a few moments of study. /DL
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Looking West
Title:  Looking West
Description:  Looking west out of the 2 track yard at Reliance from the Rt47 Crossing. Derail to the left & a switch stand at mid frame.... Roadbed defined by the color of the grass. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:06:59 PM
Location:  Reliance, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Yard
Title:  Yard
Description:  Looking east across RT47. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:05 PM
Location:  Reliance, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Rail
Title:  Rail
Description:  A transition joint bar going from 90lb under the road to 75lb in the yard. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:11 PM
Location:  Reliance, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Wooden Trestle & Tangent
Title:  Wooden Trestle & Tangent
Description:  Note the white spec at the left. It is the grain elevator in Kennebec. DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:16 PM
Location:  Lyman, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Looking west
Title:  Looking west
Description:  Kennebec in the distance. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:21 PM
Location:  Lyman, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Views:  188   Comments: 1
Bridge
Title:  Bridge
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:27 PM
Location:  Lyman, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Views:  165   Comments: 0
Flange marks along the bridge ties
Title:  Flange marks along the bridge ties
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:35 PM
Location:  Lyman, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Looking east
Title:  Looking east
Description:  Rt 273 Xing. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:41 PM
Location:  Kennebec, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Looking west
Title:  Looking west
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:07:46 PM
Location:  Kennebec, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Bridge,Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
Description:  Looking east into a cut just west of Stamford. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:10 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
Description:  Looking eastbound. I saw 1 pickup truck towing a horse trailer on the access road to the left. The guy waved as he went by. I've been thru Stamford, Ct dozens of times and on one ever waved there.. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:15 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
Description:  This is Stamford, at least this is where the Railroad says Stamford is. There's a switch stand in mid frame. I guess it would be called the West Stamford Switch. The little rabbit ear sign in the lower right must be a flanger warning sign. The line crosses the top of the frame left to right crossing a wooden bridge over a wash and then through a cut into the next valley. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:19 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
Description:  A close up. I wounder when that switch was last thrown.....
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:25 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
Description:  Looking west from County road 1. Looks like the Xing was rebuilt recently. The right side of the cut in the distance is the vantage point for the first photos in this series. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:31 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Looking west through the yard
Title:  Looking west through the yard
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:37 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:45 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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East Switch
Title:  East Switch
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:51 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
Description:  East of 'town' looking west. The road Xing in the previous photos is just to the right of the trees. The cut in in the distance. /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:09:56 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
Description:  This would be a great home for some old Fairmont track cars I should think.... I'd want'a slow down for the switches though....! /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:10:01 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Telegraph pole
Title:  Telegraph pole
Description:  We've taken these for granted for all our lives. They won't be around on most trackage much longer. CSX is taking them down by the truck load in the east..... /DL
Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:10:07 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:10:13 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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Along the Dakota Southern
Title:  Along the Dakota Southern
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Photo Date:  6/18/2011  Upload Date: 7/10/2011 9:10:17 PM
Location:  Stamford, SD
Author:  David Larrabee
Categories:  Track
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