On 12/20/2010, vintage South Carolina Central power takes a cut of cars into Hartsville on 12/20/2010. I'm at a grade crossing, but for most of this railroad's existence, I would have been in the ... (more)

An empty coal train passes a parked work train in Irmo, South Carolina on the former Columbia, Newberry & Laurens line. CSX #6462 was built in 1980 as Louisville & Nashville GP40-2 #6600.

Interchange Work. The GRLW HH pushes a boxcar back past the switch so that the Pickens RR can then pick up the boxcar and take it to their line for delivery near Honea Path, SC.

I was a bit surprised by this somewhat unusual engine lash-up in the CSX yard back in 2011 of a GE AC6000CW and EMD GP38-2, though the smaller unit may not have been online.

CSX crew breaks up Train Q211 in the aftermath of a typically light Carolina snow on board CSXT 7303 which started life in 1990 as COnrail 6055. CSX sold it after this shot and is became GECX 7303... (more)

Norfolk Southern 156 passes through Cayce, South Carolina on its way to Linwood Yard in North Carolina.

Norfolk Southern 8908 leads NS P75 over the Charleston Highway in Lexington county South Carolina im February 2013. NS 8908 was built in 1996 as a General Electric C40-9W. She was rebuilt in 2018 ... (more)

L&C 14 passes through Fort Lawn, SC with five motors pulling cars from the ADM plant in Kershaw. This shot looks different in September 2022 than it did nine years ago when I made this photograph/... (more)

On October 10,2007, CSXT SD40-2 8208 is one of four locomotives in Cayce Yard in South Carolina. This locomotive was built in 1974 as LLouisville & Nashville EMD SD40-2 3580, to Seaboard System 35... (more)

On a chilly morning in late March 2019, Lancaster and Chester Railroad passes the Elgin Volunteer Fire Department in Lancaster, South Carolina. The train left their office in downtown Lancaster so... (more)

NS GP38-2 #5570 sits @ Rock Hill, South Carolina on December 22, 2005. Sh was built as Norfolk & Western GP38AC 4140, to Norfolk Southern, same number. She then was rebuilt to GP38-2 specification... (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)

Vintage GP9s lay over one day in Miley, South Carolina. By this point, there was one customer on line, a coal fired pwoer plant in Cassady. When that plant laid off coal in 2012 (and then eventual... (more)

CSXT 940 is on the end of a loaded coal train through Slighs, South Carolina in April 2011.

A CSX crew is onboard leased power at Cayce, South Carolina in this 2011 photograph. They would shove back maybe a hundred feet to pick up a cut of cars for delivery.

HLCX (Helms Leasin... (more)