NS 50Z is a grain train for Monetta, SC. Here, we see the MGA Heritage unit lead the NS unit and the 1030 through a curve in Richland, SC. These three units are fresh off the Heritage Event at the... (more)

A very short freight train passes the Aspyre apartment building in Columbia, South Carolina with CSX 2212 on lead. It was built by EMD in 1964 as Baltimore & Ohio Railroad GP35 3551. When CSX took... (more)

Norfolk Southern 3280 brings local train P75 through Devine Junction in Columbia, South Carolina to work industry along the former Southern Railway R Line. NS 3280 is an EMD SD40-2 built for South... (more)

Sometimes foreign power really is foreign. Such was the case on an early Spring morning when FEX 4619 lead Norfolk Southern 192 into Columbia.

A CSX local treads slowly on the industrial track that cuts off from the main on Assembly Street. The train is approaching Olympia Ave. in this shot. When I was living in Columbia and shooting reg... (more)

On November 29, 2010, Union Pacific SD9043MAC 8127 leads a Norfolk Southern Railway wood chip train past the Amtrak station in Columbia, South Carolina. 8127 was built in 1997.

A CSX local train between Cayce, South Carolina and Sumter is seen here running through Columbia with GECX SD40-T2 8649 leading. The locomotive was built in 1978 for the St. Louis Southwestern as ... (more)

CSX Cayce to Sumter turn in South Carolina passes through Columbia on the Eastover Sub. SCX 2272 is a former GP30 (now a road slug) built in 1962 for the Baltimore & Ohio as BO 6971.

CSX 5972 was one of two motors as the crew of CSX Y102 is on a spur off of the Eastover Sub in Columbia, South Carolina. The old GE has an unusual ancestry. Built as Conrail #5079, it went to Norf... (more)

A reverse coal train moves through downtown Columbia, South Carolina, seen here passing the Amtrak staation. I call it a reverse coal train because most loaded trains move southward through South ... (more)

A CSX unit coal train passes over the former Columbia, Newberry & Laurens bridge over the spot where the Broad and Saluda rivers meet to form the Congaree River. CSXT 807 is a GE ES44AC-H built in... (more)

CSXT 7337 leads the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus into Columbia, South Carolina for a week of shows in January 2012. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was an American trave... (more)

A Norfolk Southern crew onboard CSXT 7554 spots the animal cars in a siding alongside the NS R Line in South Carolina's capitol city on the day the Red Unit train came to town in 2012.

Two Kansas City Southern locomotives helped power an Augusta, Georgia-bound ethanol train over Harden Street in Columbia, SC on Labor Day Weekend back in 2015. We don't see a lot of KCS leaders ar... (more)

Cutting it Close. The local NIT spur track literally cuts between two houses with little clearance to spare. Here, Y101 brings some scrap cars back from the small yard on the NIT heading to... (more)