By the Station. A loaded coal train passes by the Columbia station on its way to Santee Cooper's Cross Generating Facility near Moncks Corner.

Railroaders! The daily manifest from Linwood/Charlotte arrives into Columbia, moving down Sumter Street on its way to Andrews Yard.

Container Delivery. The daily container train passes through Columbia, where it will work Andrews Yard before heading south to Charleston.

Homeward Bound. After working several locations around Columbia, Y102 passes through the central Devine Junction on its way back to Cayce Yard as it clears up for a coal train ready to pas... (more)

Shades of Things to Come? Led by what is now at least foreign power, NS 243 departs Columbia with the iconic Adluh Flour in the background. If the merger occurs, we may see a lot of these ... (more)

Coal! NS 786 passes down Sumter Street on its way to Andrews Yard, where it will pass through and head south to deliver coal to Dominion Energy's Wateree Station.

Company Time. Unusually for Columbia, today's C320 travels through with CSX labeled hoppers and (unseen here) two mid-train DPUs (usually only one on these coal trains).

Foreign Heritage Power. The Lehigh Valley leads a military train down CSX's Eastover Sub through Columbia. NS handed the train off to CSX in Columbia; I gather it was originally intended t... (more)

The Lugoff Switcher, F764, comes in to Columbia heading to Cayce Yard with a thumbs up from the engineer.

Street Running--Kinda. The daily manifest 15R arrives into town off of the Southern's R Line and heads down Sumter Street on its way to Andrews Yard.

Arriving into Town. Running quite a few hours late, the Floridian crosses the Congaree River on its way to the modest Columbia depot, where it will briefly stop before proceeding north.

Special Coal Traffic. It's unusual for Columbia to get a specially designed CSX unit leading anything, but today the 911 unit led a Cross-bound coal train through town.

Early Morning Riser. The daily manifest from Macon proceeds through Devine Junction toward Andrews Yard in the early morning sun.

Increasingly Rare Leader. Although once ubiquitous, D9s aren't seen very much on NS's side anymore, especially as a leader. Here, an oddly clean one with no horsehead on the side leads the... (more)

Outbound. 51V takes a load of empties north from Monetta, SC through Columbia.