Huron Subdivision

The Huron Subdivision or Huron Sub is a railway line owned and operated by the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad (RCPE), a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming. The line stretches for 136 miles (219 km) across southwestern Minnesota and southeastern South Dakota, forming the eastern end of the RCPE shortline network. Originally the line was a part of the Chicago and North Western Railway. From 1986 it was a part of Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, which later became a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific Railway.
east
 to Tracy Subdivision
226.6
 Tracy
233.8
 Garvin
239.6
 Balaton
246.1
 Burchard
 BNSF Railway Marshall Subdivision
247.2
 Florence
253.7
 Tyler
261.5
 Lake Benton
261.5
 Verdi
Minnesota / South Dakota border
274.4
 Elkton
285.1
 Aurora
286.0
 Verasun Ethanol Plant
290.9
 Brookings
294.3
 Sioux Valley Spur
old
 line toward Watertown
297.4
 Volga
308.3
 Arlington
313.8
 Hetland
321.0
 Lake Preston
329.6
 De Smet
336.7
 Manchester
 Iroquois Jct
344.7
 Iroquois
354.0
 Cavour
 James River
362.8
 Huron
north
 to Yale Spur Subdivision
west
 to Pierre Subdivision

The line is dark territory, meaning that it is not signalled and not equipped with centralized traffic control or automatic block signalling systems. The line is dispatched via radio using track warrant control.

Huron Subdivision connects with Canadian Pacific Tracy Subdivision at Tracy, Minnesota, as well as Pierre Subdivision and Yale Spur Subdivision at Huron, South Dakota.

History

The Huron Subdivision is a direct descendant of the railroad line featured in the four De Smet novels within the overall series of children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder known as the Little House on the Prairie series. The line was built in 1879-1880 and first operated in the 1880s, and the new railroad line's construction and operation are repeatedly described and featured in the novels.

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