PICK 9500 leads a northbound Pickens Railroad manifest north into Anderson, SC as it cuts through the morning fog.

PICK 9500 slices through thick morning fog to get to a cut of cars just ahead of us here in Anderson, South Carolina.

A short local freight is dwarfed by the Southern RR bridge over Broadway Creek, just east of Anderson, SC.

Some babies never grow up. While I've spent approximately 5% of my life in Anderson and photographed all the prior phases of the PKHP (Pickens Honea Path), as it was known at the time, it took me... (more)

Pickens Anderson Job shoves across Rte 81 with a couple hopper cars for Owens Corning.

Pickens Anderson Job takes headroom in at downtown Anderson before shoving their cut of cars into the NS interchange track.

Pickens Anderson Job pulls into its namesake city to make a set off and pick up at the NS interchange. The engineer pulls back a couple notches and puts on a nice smoke show for me. This was one o... (more)

An Ex Seaboard Coastline U18B trots through some beautiful fields outside of Belton as it heads for the Greenville & Western Railway interchange on the other side of town.

Rolling high above Broadway Creek just outside of Anderson, the Belton job is seen making it's way back toward Belton with a single tank car in tow.

The day before Thanksgiving is almost over for the Pickens crew. They head north through the Greenville and Western interchange yard after dropping one ethanol car from NS in Anderson.

Pickens' U18B fleet soldiers on. Here the Belton job has just started the day south of town, picked up this one hopper for NS interchange at Anderson, and trundles along at 10 mph or less. The c... (more)

The Pickens crew started the day south of Belton, dropped a few cars for the Greenville and Western, and then ran light to Anderson. Here they are moving westbound at the 2 milepost of the former... (more)

Early morning light shines brightly on the nose of PICK 9508. They picked up their cut of cars from the GRLW just a few moments prior and are in the process of bringing those cars to their custome... (more)

After swapping cars around at the NS Interchange in Anderson, the Belton Job train crosses over US Hwy 178. Here they come into the Greenville & Western RR Yard Limits where they will leave their... (more)

Looking down from the overpass at N Murray Ave, the crew of the Anderson Job train begins their switching duties at the NS Interchange in downtown Anderson.