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The Crouch Line was one of many railroads in the Black Hills that experienced the area's boom and bust. Most of these early railroads were short-lived, and the main reason for the failures was flash flooding. [5] The Crouch Line entered the planning stages in the early 1890s, with the purpose of connecting Rapid City to the central Black Hills. [4]
It involves the rail roads and their steam engines needing to be filled with water about every 10 miles. Found information on Gopher, in "WPA South Dakota Place Names" (1941) - at the time of publication, the town population was 13 and still had a post maintained there. The town was named after the common native rodent.
The third rail was removed in 1964 (although as of 2022, the abandoned Oblivion Wye rails remain in place), and the locos and rolling stock were eventually divested to other heritage railways: Number 69 went to the Nebraska Midland Railroad in 1973, and then home to the White Pass in 2001.
The Black Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad (BH&FP) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge [1] railroad in the Black Hills of the U.S. state of South Dakota.It was created by the Homestake Mining Company and initially ran from Lead to Calcite and Piedmont by way of Elk Creek.
Mid Nottinghamshire Joint Railway - begun from south of Hucknall to south of Retford by the London and North Eastern Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1926. Only completed Farnsfield to Ollerton in 1931, although the Calverton Colliery branch was built on part of the unused formation by British Railways in 1951.
Dakota Central Railway: CNW: 1879 1900 Winona and St. Peter Railroad: Dakota and Great Southern Railway: MILW: 1883 1886 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway: Dakota Rail, Inc. DAKR 1982 1987 Sisseton Southern Railway: Dakota Short Line, Inc. DAKS 2001 2003 N/A Dakota Southern Railroad: MILW: 1872 1879 Sioux City and Dakota Railroad
The Deadwood Central Railroad (DCRX) [1] was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad in the U.S. state of South Dakota.It was founded by Deadwood, South Dakota resident J.K.P. Miller and his associates in 1888 to serve their mining enterprises in the Black Hills.