Heading for the Rocks. The designated local heads out to a nearby customer to pick up a load of stone.

Making the Turn. The NS OCS train passes through Five Points in Columbia, SC, on its way to the Masters in Augusta, GA.

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)

While the Cayce to Sumter sneaks up behind her, CSXT B0-8 5962 sirs on the lead of a spur to a scrap yard near the South Carolina State Fair grounds. She had a minor derailment the day before and ... (more)

On December 2, 2011, Norfolk Southern Railway Train 155 prepares to stop in Columbia, South Carolina for a crew change before heading southward with former Soo Line SD60 #6012 leading. It was buil... (more)

In 2010, the now abolished wood chip train out of Andrews Yard comes back into Columbia with a full load. This is a train that once climbed the famous Saluda Grade on its way to Canton, North Car... (more)

CSX 5918 and hertrain wait for a crew that will not ome until daylight. She was built for CSX predecessor line Seaboard System in 1985 ad was retired by CSX shortly after this photograph was made.... (more)

In 2010, the now abolished wood chip train out of Andrews Yard comes back into Columbia with a full load. This is a train that once climbed the famous Saluda Grade on its way to Canton, North Caro... (more)

Unfortunately, due to the time the train came through and the direction it was heading, this was the only decent place to shoot the circus train in Columbia. And, of course, none of the circus tra... (more)

RailServe GP7 #4493 at the NS Columbia, SC Yard on January 8, 2014. This unit had previously been at the International Paper in Eastover, South Carolina.

Norfolk Southern wood chip train approaches Lady Street in Columbia, South Carolina in 2008. This train used to run up the Saluda Grade before that line was closed. But now the plant that made the... (more)

A spartan cab Dash 9 crosses Sumter Street in Columbia, SC in 2013.

Back in 2012, I caught the CSX daily Cayce to Hamlet, North Carolina train on the former Seaboard Air Line Railway. In this sot, the train is crossing Tryon Street in Columbia about to get on the ... (more)

The CSX daily Cayce to Hamlet, North Carolina train is on the former Seaboard Air Line Railway traveling northbound over Park Street in Columbia via a bridge built in the 1980s.