WATCH: Deadwood Trolley Burns On Interstate

Oh, that looks bad. Is everybody okay? See the video below.

STURGIS, S.D. – There were no injuries, thankfully. But there was this firefighting scene of a Deadwood Trolley that caught fire on I-90 Wednesday morning of this week.

The city of Deadwood explained that the trolley was traveling to Rapid City for repairs. That means that there were not any passangers on board. Did you know that these things were allowed on the interstate? I had no idea. Anyway, the trolley had just pulled onto the Interstate at Exit 30 when it caught fire.

Only the driver was on board at the time. He pulled over and leaped out. He's fine. The trolley, however, burned completely until it was nothing but ashes on the road.

The video below was posted on TikTok. The folks driving by recording this only saw smoke at first and had no idea what they were looking at until they got close.

Watch the video below. 

So I guess we can say that whatever repairs needed to be done really needed to be done, but don't need to be done anymore.

That poor driver had to explain it to his boss. Though it can honestly be said that it was not the driver's fault.

A brand new transit trolley bus similar to those operating in Deadwood, South Dakota, generally costs between $450,000 and $600,000 to purchase and build. But why so expensive? Because Deadwood uses rubber-tired trolley buses (specially designed diesel or alternative-fuel buses made to look like historic streetcars) rather than traditional rail-guided trolleys, they do not require millions of dollars in track or overhead wire infrastructure.