Dakota Minnesota & Eastern The Last Days

SKU: DVD-PE-DME-LD
(2 customer reviews)

$24.95

Witness the end of the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern’s 22 year career as a large regional railroad. The DM&E was a large 1,103 mile regional railroad operating in the prairie Midwest.

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Producer

Plets Express

Run Time

1 hour 40 minutes

Narration

Yes

Shrink Wrap

Yes, Brand New

Technical Details

No Region Code, NTSC

Witness the end of the Dakota Minnesota & Eastern’s 22 year career as a large regional railroad. The DM&E was a large 1,103 mile regional railroad operating in the prairie Midwest. The line was purchased in 1986 from the Chicago & NorthWestern and operated for 22 years before being acquired in October of 2008 by the Canadian Pacific. Shot during the summer of 2008, this program shows a system-wide look at the DM&E’s last season as an independent railroad.

Starting in Winona, DM&E trains are seen traveling across the corn fields of Minnesota, then onto the great plains and wheat fields of South Dakota. Next the DM&E rolls through the Badlands to Rapid City. The train action then continues into the state of Wyoming and to the bentonite mines at Colony. This program features both DM&E yard switching and road freights across the scenic granger line that contains numerous large grain elevators, along with several historic and former C&NW depots. The DM&E’s locomotives include models: GP38-2, GP40, SD40-2 and SD40-3.

We also take a brief look at connecting CP and UP trains plus some steam action on the Black Hills Central. Each Plets Express DVD comes with a map and additional information to make it easy and enjoyable to follow along with the program. You can turn the narration on or off.

2 reviews for Dakota Minnesota & Eastern The Last Days

  1. Dan

    A nice look at the entire Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern system shortly before the 1,100 mile regional railroad was absorbed into the Canadian Pacific. Well done videography captures mainline and switching action against the beautiful prairie backdrops of Minnesota, South Dakota and Wyoming. The narration offers insightful information about the trains, the region and the history of the line, and the printed map included with Plets Express videos is always helpful. This is an excellent follow-up to Plets’ 1995 release “Dakota Minnesota and Eastern”.

  2. aw

    The DM&E was big enough to have a lot of operation, but small enough for you to get what it was all about in one setting. A big fan of Plets Express as his videos are put together nicely. Plets Expres really did their research on these productions. I recommend any Plets Videos if you like informative Narration and good picture quality.

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