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)

L&C crew shoves a short train down to a storage in transit yard in East Chester, South Carolina on April 22, 2019.

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 gets some empty grain cars out of the sidings in Richburg, South Carolina back in 2018. Meanwhile, a fellow railfan gets his shot from a different angle.

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Lancaster and Chester Train 14 sits at the Kershaw, South Carolina Archer-Daniels-Midland plant in April 2013 waiting for a crew to move her. L&C 3819 was built in 1978 as Conrail #8230, to Norfol... (more)

A Pickens Railroad train is near the end of their line after interchanging with the Belton Job with two vintage General Electric locomotives as power.

PICK #9507 was built by GE in 1974... (more)

After meeting their counterpart train and crew at the Norfolk Southern interchange, the Belton Job leaves downtown Anderson with a train mostly consisting of interchange cars for the Greenville & ... (more)