Entering the Junction. Led by foreign power, the daily container/mixed freight enters Devine Junction, which is central to all train traffic through Columbia, SC.

Two Carolina Piedmont EMD GP38-2 units and a GP38 sit just inside the fence at the General Electric power turbine plant off Garlington Road in Greenville.

A northbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train enters single track at Taylors, SC.

Linwood-Columbia manifest 15R rolls southward by the Blackstock Fish Camp, apparently a local favorite with such a crowd early on Saturday evening.

Mixed Consist. The daily mixed freight 15R arrives into Columbia led by the original NS heritage unit, visiting BNSF power, and a routine NS unit.

NS 15R crossing the Catawba River led by the Original NS Heritage Engine

Norfolk Southern 1646 is on NS P75 in October 2007 waiting for clearane to proceed onto the former Southern Railway R Line in Columbia South Caroliina toward Lexington to work local industry in th... (more)

Lancaster and Chester (LC) 2866 is a former Southern Railway EMD GP38AC built in 1971. Upon that railroad's merger with the Norfolk & Western, it became Norfolk Southern (NS) 2866. It was then sol... (more)

An import coal train passes through Devine Junction in Columbia, South Carolina in 2012. NS 8761 was later be rebuilt into C40-8.5W 8513.

Norfolk Southern 67E, an empty wood chip train, takes the siding in Simpson, a small hamlet in Fairfield, South Carolina.

CSX Q211 crossing the Congaree River

The Pickens Anderson Job switching cars around at downtown Anderson.

NS P75 crossing the Congaree River

Headed Out. Unusually led by a foreign BNSF unit, the daily mixed freight NS 191 departs Columbia through the central Devine Junction on its way to Augusta, GA.

Norfolk Southern's Virginian heritage unit is in charge of local train P75, a freight out of Columbia, South Carolina that goes down the R Line to Monetta, SC.