This is a snap shot taken by an unknown photographer. The print has been in my collection for decades, and I have no recollection of where it came from. However, I do know this is train 46, the no... (more)

A GP38-2 leads a Spartanburg freight into Andrews Yard as another Dash-2 handles a switch job.

Brand-new 5224 switches North Charleston. That pulpwood may be headed for Westvaco's plant on the Cooper River a couple miles south of here.

Fresh from a repainting by Norfolk Southern, Southern 6900 practically shone. Although it was, to a certain extent, left out of the lime-light because of the event's more exotic participants, the ... (more)

No. 6, the northbound Piedmont, departs Hayne Yard behind two RS-3's and four F-units, complete with pigs on the rear. This scene was taken from the overhead bridge at Farley Street looking toward... (more)

Classics at the Spencer turntable glow in the late day sun.

The engineer heats up a few brake shoes as he brings the southbound Southern Crescent to a stop in Tuscaloosa.

There are those events to which we can look back and say "I'm glad I was there". This was such an event. "We don't need no stinking diesels!" Up the steepest mainline grade... (more)

While preparing to move NCTM's Southern GP30 from a roundhouse track to the turntable, the engineer starts up the EMD, shooting a could of smoke into the sky. Far above is a crescent moon, which i... (more)

Southern 4501 highballs Columbia for the NRHS Convention in Charleston. The old Union Station, now a restaurant, is seen in the distance. The wye tracks the train is riding over have been pulled... (more)

As Southern 4501 gets coaled out of view left, Alco S2 #2229 pulls away from the scene. The activity happens near the old Union Station, adjacent to the University of South Carolina campus.

SOU 4501 takes coal while stopped in front of the old Union Station. The train is enroute to the 1970 NRHS Convention in Charleston. Today this building is a California Dreaming restaurant, situ... (more)

Southern 4501 trails the 722 on this run of the Carolina Special as part of the 1970 NRHS Convention, held in Charleston celebrating 140 years of railroading there. The train is about to duck und... (more)

Another chase shot is made of the doubleheaded Carolina Special, led by Southern steam engines 722 & 4501, running a Charleston-Savannah excursion via the SCL mainline. The train is about to duc... (more)

The Carolina Special passes over the SCL raceway, enroute to Savannah from Charleston. Powered by doubleheaded steam courtesy of Southern #'s 722 & 4501, fans on the back porch enjoy the ride. Ch... (more)