The Charleston station at dusk.

The Palmetto had a Viewliner II in the consist this day for a rolling photo shoot.

M583 passes the remnants of a textile mill in Calhoun Falls.

Lancaster and Chester crew works the industries on the East Chester trackage on a gorgeous autumn day in 2013. She was built in 1966 as Detroit Toledo & Ironton (DTI) 201


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One of my favorite spots to shoot the L&C is on their original line near where Williams Estate Road and Jenna Lane meet. Long trains snake up the line behind the power toward Memorial Park Road.

During the RailAmerica-era on the South Carolina Central Railroad, they rostered two former Grand Trunk Western units, one of which I caught in 2010 working the yard in Darlington County.

A CSX local crew crosses Assembly to get back to the Eastover Sub. There is no car traffic between me and the train because a freight is still blocking the crossing behind me. Thanks, guys!

An empty coal train eases into the old Clinchfield Railroad yard in Spartanburg, South Carolina for a crew change before proceeding northbound in 2007. The bridge is lettered for a nearby college.

CSXT SD60 8715 is on point of a train making a few moves around the railroad's Cayce, South Carolina yard in 2007. The locomotive was built by EMD in 1989 for Conrail as CR 6851. CSX got it when C... (more)

CSX train M58315 crosses the Savannah River/Richard B Russell Lake from Georgia into Calhoun Falls, South Carolina, with the Operation Lifesaver 50th Anniversary unit leading the way.

The often overlooked rooftop details of CSX's Operation Lifesaver 50th Anniversary unit, SD70AC #4568.

L&C EMD SW900 #90 approaches Springdale Rd. in Lancaster, SC in a paint scheme similiar to what she wore upon delivery to the South Carolina shortline in 1965. Note the old siding to the left of t... (more)

L&C GP40-2LW #9548 leads Train 14 in Lancaster. She wis the first wide nose unit on the shortline's roster. She was built in March, 1975 as Canadian National 9548. Gulf & Ohio Railways purchased t... (more)

Northbound Hotshot. NS 24X brings its high priority load over Lawson's Fork Creek just past Beaumont on its way north on the Southern Main.

Lancaster and Chester Railway Santa Train was southbound on the old Southern Railway SB Line in 2021. Most of the time when I shot the L&C Santa Train, the weather was gloomy. 2012 was one of the ... (more)