South Dakota Trip (1983)

Mitchell

to

Kadoka

In 1983 the Weed Route accomplished a second expedition to check out and ride additional Milwaukee Road abandonments in the west. The following photos are on the abandoned route from Mitchell to Kadoka South Dakota.

After showing little interest in the initial 1980 Weed Route Pacific Extension Trip the Smithsonian magazine magically reconsidered and sent out a famous writer from New York City (James Traub) and also a famous NYC fashion photographer (Jorge Diaz) to come along.

The Weed Route snapped up a Tunisian exchange student (Ghazi Azabi) to deliver the rolling stock on the railroads state of the art 1957 Ford Falcon station wagon. The speeder was towed on our special 1955 Dilly custom boat trailer replete with original chrome half moon hubcaps – which were unfortunately stolen near Sioux City.

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