Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Mount Rushmore SD40-2 #6359

The locomotives of Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern and Iowa, Chicago and Eastern celebrated the communities and landmarks that these railroads served. Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern SD40-2 #6359 "Mount Rushmore" was one of the first ASLRRA member locomotives that I drew in 1992.  

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Seeing My First Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Train at Rapid City, South Dakota

It was exciting for me to see a pair of Iowa, Chicago and Eastern SD40-2 locomotives on the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern in Rapid City, South Dakota in 2010.  I had first drawn Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern in 1992 and had yet to see a locomotive from this family of railroads that I liked so much.

I had just spent the morning at the Alliance, Nebraska BNSF yard.  Under a beautiful blue South Dakota sky, I saw my first Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern train nearly twenty years after drawing my first DM and E locomotive.  What an exciting day.