On December 2, 2011, Norfolk Southern Railway Train 155 prepares to stop in Columbia, South Carolina for a crew change before heading southward with former Soo Line SD60 #6012 leading. It was buil... (more)

In 2010, the now abolished wood chip train out of Andrews Yard comes back into Columbia with a full load. This is a train that once climbed the famous Saluda Grade on its way to Canton, North Car... (more)

CSX 5918 and hertrain wait for a crew that will not ome until daylight. She was built for CSX predecessor line Seaboard System in 1985 ad was retired by CSX shortly after this photograph was made.... (more)

In 2010, the now abolished wood chip train out of Andrews Yard comes back into Columbia with a full load. This is a train that once climbed the famous Saluda Grade on its way to Canton, North Caro... (more)

Unfortunately, due to the time the train came through and the direction it was heading, this was the only decent place to shoot the circus train in Columbia. And, of course, none of the circus tra... (more)

RailServe GP7 #4493 at the NS Columbia, SC Yard on January 8, 2014. This unit had previously been at the International Paper in Eastover, South Carolina.

Norfolk Southern wood chip train approaches Lady Street in Columbia, South Carolina in 2008. This train used to run up the Saluda Grade before that line was closed. But now the plant that made the... (more)

A spartan cab Dash 9 crosses Sumter Street in Columbia, SC in 2013.

Back in 2012, I caught the CSX daily Cayce to Hamlet, North Carolina train on the former Seaboard Air Line Railway. In this sot, the train is crossing Tryon Street in Columbia about to get on the ... (more)

The CSX daily Cayce to Hamlet, North Carolina train is on the former Seaboard Air Line Railway traveling northbound over Park Street in Columbia via a bridge built in the 1980s.

NS 50Z is a grain train for Monetta, SC. Here, we see the MGA Heritage unit lead the NS unit and the 1030 through a curve in Richland, SC. These three units are fresh off the Heritage Event at the... (more)

A very short freight train passes the Aspyre apartment building in Columbia, South Carolina with CSX 2212 on lead. It was built by EMD in 1964 as Baltimore & Ohio Railroad GP35 3551. When CSX took... (more)

Norfolk Southern 3280 brings local train P75 through Devine Junction in Columbia, South Carolina to work industry along the former Southern Railway R Line. NS 3280 is an EMD SD40-2 built for South... (more)

Sometimes foreign power really is foreign. Such was the case on an early Spring morning when FEX 4619 lead Norfolk Southern 192 into Columbia.

A CSX local treads slowly on the industrial track that cuts off from the main on Assembly Street. The train is approaching Olympia Ave. in this shot. When I was living in Columbia and shooting reg... (more)