This is 1973 and Eastbound CNW Meat Train #482 meeting Westbound empty equipment train #495 at Desmet, South Dakota. Tracks are growing up with weeds, yep, we are going broke, like the Milwaukee Road.

Old Alco's in full stride soon to be scrap metal, but doing the biz on this nice summer day in the Laura Ingalls Wilders town. Remember "The Little House on the Prairie?" The depot is just ahead and not in the pic, now a museum.

That's Charlie Holm hanging out the window...aah, to go back to when it was fun...

Mark

Please remember to "Hoard Responsibly."