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Monday, July 7, 2014

Black Hills Central Railroad

Who's ready for the first train out of Keystone?  These girls are!
 The nice thing about riding the Black Hills Central Railroad historic train from Keystone to Hill City at 8:45 a.m. is that we practically had the train to ourselves.
 It was a very scenic ride up to Hill City, with lots of trees, rocks and streams.  Unfortunately, the train makes a lot of noise, which scared away most of the wildlife.  We only saw a couple of brave groundhogs and one lone deer.
 The early train from Keystone to Hill City is a diesel, but the locomotive for our return trip to Keystone was a steam engine.  The girls liked listening to it huff and chuff as it made its way up and down the mountain.
 It was a very relaxing, fun morning riding the rails.  And Julia got a very unique souvenir, especially for someone living on the east coast.

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