Seaboard Coast Line (SCL) 765454, a railroad crane, rests in Mullins, South Carolina attached to several cupport cars. At the time, I thought CSX was positioning it there for the next inevitable C... (more)

It's the Day after Christmas in 2005 and I am trying t find a train on the Carolina Southern Railroad. While I did find a train, it was sitting on a siding near the CSX interchange in Mullins. The... (more)

Rural railroading kicks off with a break test for the crew of RJ Corman's former Carolina Southern line. They have picked up their train near the very beginning of the line in downtown Mullins, S... (more)

Bending Iron Repeating a scene about as old as railroading itself, a crew member off CSX 746 lines the switch to get back on the mainline after setting out a car in Mullins, South Carolina... (more)

An interesting Carolina Southern consist (GP18 951, F9B 6622 and GP38 4002) is tied down in Mullins, South Carolina, and protected by a smashboard at the CSX diamond. The CALA line was originally ... (more)

Is it a Popscicle stick? ... Is it a very skinny tombstone? ... Is it a home pregnancy test? No ... It's an Atlantic Coast Line concrete whistle post. Cast into this sign are depressions showing... (more)

Having just set out some cars in Mullins, South Carolina, the power off a CSX train, led by ES44AH 746 (and SD70ACe 4837 and ES44AH 743) waits for the conductor to line the switch back onto the ma... (more)

Closeup shot of the cab of a SCL crane with a CSX sticker on it.

A CSX crane still lettered as SCL 765454MW is parked in a siding along with a B&O boxcar

A GP18, FP9B, GP30, GP18, GP18 lashup powers a Carolina Southern train East from Mullins towards Chadbourn

An amazing GP18-FP9B-GP30-GP18-GP18 lashup in five paint schemes leads the Carolina Southern freight east from the CSX connection at Mullins, SC, about 50 miles NW of Myrtle Beach. By the end of ... (more)