Charleston & Western Carolina F7 No. 901 does some freight duties during car clean up at the end of operations for short line Wisconsin Western in 1985. In late March, the unit retrieved cars off ... (more)
In June 1984, Golden Arrow Lines operated excursions on the Central Wisconsin Railroad Company route between Waukesha and Whitewater, Wisconsin. Passing the Nite Cap Inn at Palmyra is one of the e... (more)
On a typically gloomy spring day in Wisconsin on March 30, 1985, Glenn Monhart’s Charleston & Western Carolina F7 No. 901 does some freight duties during car clean up at the end of operations fo... (more)
BB #3 was originally built as Charleston & Western Carolina GP7 #203 in 1950. BB #9 was originally built as Atlantic Coast Line GP7 #203 in 1951.
A pair of rebuilt GP16 workhorses are seen at the Mississippi Central Holly Springs yard in North Mississippi. PREX 1604 was built in 1950 as a GP7 for the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway.... (more)
Buckingham Branch Railroad locomotives 3, 5 and 17 take a Monday work break on Labor Day. BB 3 was originally built as Atlantic Coast Line/Charleston & Western Carolina GP7 203 in 1950. The Seaboa... (more)
The Town of Varnville, SC has recognized its rail heritage by painting this former Reading 94063 and Conrail 18847 caboose in C. & W. C. garb.
Used as power for passenger excursions in Virginia and Wisconsin in the mid-1980s, Charleston & Western Carolina is seen awaiting transport in B&OCT's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.
I wonder if the new locomotive technologies being manufactured today will last as long as these three. Between this trio of EMD engines, they have 170 years of combined service to various railroad... (more)
A fan trip with C&WC 901 along with E-unit 106 makes its way across central Wisconsin between Plover and Wisconsin Rapids on a hot hazy July afternoon. I never did much shooting in this stretch as... (more)
Seaboard Coast Line (Seaboard System) U18B #336, GP16 #4772, GP40-2 #1655, GP38-2 #528 & GP40 #6751 lead train 1st #335 southbound past the former depot location. Seaboard Coast Line U18B #336 wa... (more)
Southbound excursion train at Unicoi, TN in November 1984 on the former Clinchfield RR.
ex-CSX/SBD. Renumbered to BBRR 3.
Seaboard Coast Line GP7 #871 leads Waycross bound train #376 with units SCL 1743 U33B, 866 GP7, 317 U18B, 1754 U36B & 542 GP38-2. Charleston & Western Carolina GP7 #217 was built December 1951 an... (more)
C&WC GP7 #209 resting at Spartanburg, SC Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink || June 1956
