CSXT C40-8W #7702 leads a loaded auto rack train over the former Seaboard Air Line Railway bridge over the Congaree River in 2007. The train has almost reached it's destination at Dixiana, South C... (more)

Kansas City Power. Unusually for Columbia, we've seen a lot of foreign power lately on NS trains. It most often is Union Pacific, but on Monday 242 was led by two rare KCS leaders. Here, i... (more)

Running Late. Running a bit later than its usual nighttime schedule, the northbound Silver Star arrives into Columbia in the early morning, passing through Devine Junction on its way to th... (more)

Profile in Technology. Working outside of their usual territory, two Union Pacific Tier 4 units--SD70AH to UP, SD70ACe-T4 for most other lines--lead the daily intermodal train from Atlanta... (more)

Modern Visitors. In a unique lashups, two Union Pacific Tier 4 SD70s lead an intermodal through Columbia on the way to the port in Charleston, SC. I understand that these two T4 units arri... (more)

A local CSX crew is using a road slug and mother to work Tucker Materials in Columbia, South Carolina, CSXT 2214 is the road slug. It was built as Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) GP35 3529 in 196... (more)

Built in 1973 as Seabord Coast Line GP38-2 #512, she's actually been in service longer for CSX than she was for the SCL. I caught her fouling Assembly Street in Columbia, South Carolina on CSX Y10... (more)

A local CSX crew is using a road slug and mother to work the Cayce to Columbua turn Y102. CSXT 2214 is the road slug. It was built as Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) GP35 3529 in 1964. Ir has sin... (more)

A CSX crew out of Cayce, South Caroline has shoved back onto a scrap yard spur and tied their train down for the night in October 2006. CSXT 6441 is an EMD GP40-2 built for the Baltimore & Ohio Ra... (more)

The rear end of a loaded coal train passes over Assembly Street in Columbia, South Caolina back 2009. CSX #703 is a General Electric ES44AC-H built in 2007. It is an DPU in this shot which stands ... (more)

CSX Q494 passes the Village at Sandhill in northeast Columbia, South Carolina on it's then-daily trip from Cayce to Hamlet, NC and back.

Norfolk Southern 4139 leads an intermodal train int Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina in Jauary 2020. From the fact he is off the main line, I suspect there was a meet here with a northboun... (more)

Norfolk Southern SD60M leads a graiin train past the old Union Station in Columbia, South Carolina heaing to Amick Fams in nearby Batesburg-Leesville. NS 6797 was built in 1993 for Conrail as CR 5... (more)

Norfolk Southern Train 191 is stopped at Assembly Street in Columbia, South Carolin as it waits on anothr train to clear the track ahead of it. NS 6717 was an EMD SD60I buillt in 1994 as Conrail (... (more)

In 2008, I caught the daily Cayce too Sumter, South Carolina local through Columbia one morning while on a break from work.