In 1887, the quarries at East Sioux Falls competed for the expanding Illinois Central Railroad as Sioux Falls sought a fourth rail connection to reduce the tiring and expensive hauling of stone by mule to the Burlington line. Edwin A. Sherman quickly raised the $42,250 deposit required to begin construction, and the route to Sioux Falls through East Sioux Falls was secured on July 12, 1887. Built by 240 men and advancing from Cherokee, Iowa at three miles per day, the line reached East Sioux Falls by early December and was completed to Sioux Falls on December 19, 1887. In June 1888, East Sioux Falls received a wooden two-story depot. In 1889, Sioux Falls businessmen planned an electric trolley line between the two towns in hopes that quarry workers would more easily travel to Sioux Falls and spend their wages there. Track laying began in January 1890 from the intersection of 10th Street and Phillips Ave to East Sioux Falls, and the one-way trip took half an hour. Built by Pullman, the trolley made its first round trip at 5 pm on June 21, 1890. Its popularity varied over the next eight years, with heavier summer traffic as Sioux Falls families rode to East Sioux Falls to picnic in the park or watch quarry operations, while many quarrymen chose to walk to save the fare and winter brought little traffic. The Panic of 1893 and the depression that followed nearly crippled the line, and trolley service officially ended in 1899, after which the cars were shipped to New York for use on a line there and the iron tracks were removed and sent to Springfield, Massachusetts.