Heading for the Rocks. The designated local heads out to a nearby customer to pick up a load of stone.

In late 2013, a Greenville & Western crew gets another run with the Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 before she is sent to home rails for the first time.

A Lancaster and Chester crew brings a grain train for Circle S Feed Mill into Richburg, SC in Chester county.

In August 2005, CSXT 2758 is parked in the Bowater railyard in Catawba, South Carolina. The locomotive was built in 1973 for Penn Central as PC GP38-2 8152. Upon the formation of Conrail, it becam... (more)

Both modern-era builders and a variety of models are represented in this photograph made in August 2015

CMC Steel crew in Cayce, South Carolina pulls a cut of cars out of the steel mill using a faux Alco S2.

Making the Turn. The NS OCS train passes through Five Points in Columbia, SC, on its way to the Masters in Augusta, GA.

Coal! CSX brings a load of coal for Santee Cooper's Cross Generating Station through Jalapa, SC on the CN&L line.

CMC Steel crew in Cayce, South Carolina pulls a cut of cars out of the steel mill using a faux Alco S2.

Remote control operated EMD butthead switcher at the Nucor Steel plant in Darlington, South Carolina, specifically Floyd. NUCX 05 was built in 1977 as Northern Pacific 120, to Burlington Northern ... (more)

Unique Leader. An SD70MAC leads the daily M580 through "the Ditch" out of Columbia, SC. In a rail reorganization initiative in the 1980s, the CSX and NS tracks in the northern part of Colu... (more)

Multiple Foreign Units. The daily pig train from Atlanta, NS 242, proceeds through the locally popular Devine Junction toward Andrews Yard in Columbia. Any train that runs through Columbia... (more)

The Impending Storm. Having recently finished its morning work, this former Port Royal Railroad switcher awaits the impending arrival of Hurricane Ian as indicated by the clouds in the back... (more)

Former FEC GP40-2 #505 sits at the South Carolina Central yard in Floyd, South Carolina back in July of 2013. The locomotive was built for the Florida East Coast Railway in 1978.

A local freight train prepares to leave Cayce Yard in South Carolina in 2008 led by CSX B36-7 #5826. Shortly after, CSX retired their fleet of Dash 7 locomotives. It was built for Seaboard System ... (more)