In the late 1970s, Family Lines power was starting to float all over the system, but very few non-SCL units made it to the former ACL main through Charleston, at least in my experience. On this d... (more)

A few minutes after a quick pick-up/set-out at Bennett Yard in North Charleston, train 120 zooms up the slight grade into Hanahan. This 120 has a pair of big ol' six-axle GEs - a welcome relief f... (more)

A Pooch leads what I guess is a hospital train through the big curve north of Hanahan on a - naturally - hazy, overcast early summer morning.

CSX Light Power move heads north on the CSX A Line headed for Florence SC

As Q406 is stopped on track 2 at Hanahan Q032 runs around him on track 1 at track speed with a priority train

CSXT Q406 holds on the number 2 track at Hanahan for a hotshot intermodal to run around him on track 1

SCL 511 - with unusual white-on-black number boards - teams with a GP40, U36B and a pair of old GE C-Cs to lead a southbound freight through Hanahan. In a few minutes they'll drop down the hill i... (more)

SAL's Charleston-Hamlet main was relegated to second-class status after the merger, but it was an interesting, photogenic line. The long timber trestle over Goose Creek was one of many on the lin... (more)

Q172 runs a couple times a week as an advanced section of Q174, the daily Jacksonville-New York intermodal. Today, Q172 accelerates out of Charleston, SC with 5000' of single stacked intermodal.

Q491 blasts past the ghostly shopping cart at Hanahan. This cart mysteriously appeared after Halloween and then just dissappeared the next day - believe it or not!