While Norfolk Southern 156 sits at Tryon Street in Columbia, North Caroina for permission to proceed, a CSX train is coming out of their yard on their track. It must be the daily Cayce to Hamlet, ... (more)

As a local Norfolk Southern train accesses the old Southern Railway R Line in Columbia, South Carolina, Union Pacific power waits to finish running around the wye downtown to turn their power so i... (more)

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)

On a very rainy St. Patrick's Day 2014, crews of two Lanaster and Chester trains have combined to bring a cut of cars on the wye track that leads to the "new" CSX interchange that was bu... (more)

When this unit was first painted by GWI, it was given an Atlantic & Western logo on the long hood and renumbered from SCRF 2027 to ATW 1603. I shot a picture of her in the Sputh Carolina Central R... (more)

On May 25, 2006 a Lancaster and Chester Railway crew iis heading toward downtown Lancaster to access the former Southern Railway interchange to get on their original trackage. They have just worke... (more)

Back in June of 2006, I caught the L&C Railway on a Saturday run bringing a cut of car to the Norfolk Southern interchsnge in downtown Chester. The train is hauling empty coal cars that have come ... (more)

ADM SW8 #8682 was built in 1951 for Lehigh Valley and given the number 268. Upon the formation of Conrail in the 1970s, it became Conrail (CR) 8682. It now works it's golden years at the Archer Da... (more)

Pee Dee River Railway 1764 leads a train through some final switching moves at the small yard in Marlboro, South Carolina. The yard feeds the Domtar Paper Mill which can be seen in the background.... (more)

Pee Dee River Railway spots a few cars on what was then a new spur for them to the new Mohawk Furniture plant. The motive power on the Pee Dee River Railway are former Seaboard Coast Line GP16s. S... (more)

Pee Dee River Railway sits at their railyard in Marlboro, South Carolina. Both of these locomtives are rebuilt GP16s from Seaboard Air Line GP7s. PDRR 1764 was built in 1952 as SAL 1809. Seaboard ... (more)

A Helms Leasing SD60 leads a Norfolk Southern train through Cayce, South Carolina in 2009. HLCX 5998 was built in 1986 as Chicago & Northwestern #8048.


to Union Paific (UP) 5998
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The one time Cayce, South Carolina got some interesting power, literally foreign power in this case, of course it is foggy that day. Here, a CSX crew uses Canadian Pacific and leased CEFX power to... (more)

PICK 9500

Coal Train. Viewed from Riverfront Park, this long train of SCWX cars bound for Santee Cooper's Cross Generating Station crosses the old CN&L Bridge over the higher than usual Broad River.