Black Hills Central Railroad
- Black Hills Central Railroad
The Black Hills Central Railroad Reporting mark|BHCR is a heritage railroad that operates in South Dakota.
It currently operates the "1880 Train" on the former Keystone Branch of the Burlington Northern Railroad (BN) between Hill City, South Dakota and Keystone, South Dakota. This railroad line was originally built by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad as a mining railroad for gold in the Black Hills. It reached Keystone on January 201900 and was later used to haul equipment for carving nearby Mount Rushmore. [cite web |url=http://www.keystonechamber.com/kahs/keyhistory.html|title=A Thumbnail History of Keystone|accessdate=2007-05-22 |last= Hayes|first=Robert E|publisher=Keystone Area Historical Society |date= |year= |month= ]
In 1957, the Black Hills Central Railroad began operating a tourist passenger excursion train service on this line. In 1972, a flood destroyed the last mile of the Burlington Northern/Black Hills Central line in Keystone, which was later restored in 2001. [cite web|last=Mills|first=Rick W|title=A Time Line of Black Hills Railroads|publisher="Black Hills Visitor Magazine"|url=http://www.blackhillsvisitor.com/main.asp?id=14&cat_id=30175&open_id=71 |accessdate=2008-09-16] The Black Hills Central Railroad restores early twentieth century-era locomotives and train cars and has been featured on television shows, such as the "Gunsmoke" episode "Snow Train", "General Hospital", and the TNT mini-series, "Into the West". It also appeared in the movie, "Orphan Train".
Trains operate between early-May and early-October over the scenic, convert|10|mi|km|sing=on line.
Preserved equipment
The BHCR operates rare, well-preserved, and operational steam locomotives:
* # 7, Baldwin 2-6-2, built 1919
* #103, Baldwin 2-6-2, built 1926
* #104, Baldwin 2-6-2T tank locomotive "(pictured)", built 1926
* #110, Baldwin 2-6-6-2T, built 1928, the last operating model of its type
* #6657, Whitcomb Locomotive Works 80DE5, built 1943
The Black Hills Central Railroad also has a diesel locomotive on its engine roster:
* #63, EMD GP9, formerly Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O)
References
External links
[http://www.1880train.com/ Black Hills Central Railroad ("The 1880 Train") official website]
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