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

The Pickens 'Belton job' returns to Anderson after interchanging with the Greenville & Western

Greenville & Western GP9 #3752 and GP30 #4204 brings a healthy train from CSX into Belton

Crew on board Lancaster and Chester RR GP38-2 #3821 works the area between Old Richburg Road and SC Hwy. 9 on April 22, 2019. L&C 3821 was one of the first two road switchers the railroad bought. ... (more)

L&C SW900 #90 brings a single car of lumber bound for Builders Supply as it approaches West Manor Road in Lancaster.

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 Q463 is just a few hundred yards from its terminating yard in Cayce, SC as it crosses the Congaree River that separates Richland and Lexington counties in South Carolina.

Lancaster and Chester Train 16 works the industries on the wye track that connects to CSX Transportation. Here, they are shoving across Beltline Road because Train 12 is about to come in from behi... (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)

An ex-Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD40-2 is on point of a train sitting in the CSX yard in Cayce, South Carolina. HLCX #8081 was built in 1979 as Burlington Northern, same number. The unit was so... (more)

A former Conrail SD50 leads NS 337 out of the Rock Hill yard in South Carolina.