Nearing the end of their service life on CSX, these two Dash 7s are on a local in Columbia, SC. The lead unit was built as Seaboard System (SBD) 5891 in 1985.

Norfolk Southern 8795 brings a lot cut of BMWs fom their plant in Greer, South Carolina through Columbia in 2011. NS 8795 was built in 1995 as a General Electric C40-9. It has been rebuilt since t... (more)

It's late afternoon on a brisk autumn day in November 2008 and a two train is taking place at Assembly Street in Columbia, Souh Carolina. The conductor for the outgoing train is ready to perform h... (more)

In September I caught a Harsco Railgrinder sitting in Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina. It had recently been built in the Harsco plant in West Columbia and shipped out v... (more)

An empty Norfolk Southern grain train passes Maintenance of Way crews in Columbia, South Carolina heading northbound on the R Line. NS 7635 is a General ES40DC built in 2007. The MoW gang got pull... (more)

In 2012, a crew onboard Norfolk SD40-2 3226 waits for clearance to proceed through Devine Junction in Columbia, South Carolina. They will take the W Line out of town to Hanson Rock Quarry just of... (more)

A Norfolk Southern railroad conductor steps back onto NS 8865 after throwing a switch to head out of Columbia, South Carolina in late 2007. It looks like P75 has some grain cars for Amick Farms in... (more)

CSXT GP40-2 6348 sits on a parked train in Columbia, South Carolina in June 2008. She and her crew had been working the ocal industry that day and must have llawed out. She was built in 1972 as Se... (more)

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)

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.

Arrived. Running a little later than usual, the daily pig train arrives into Columbia, passing through "The Ditch" on its way to Andrews Yard and then to the Port at Charleston, ... (more)

Norfolk Southern local train P77 crosses the CSX diamond with a short train heading back to Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina in 2014 under ann angry sky.

A CSX crew is on the spur to a scrap juk yard in Columbia South Carolina in early 2007. CSXT 2726 was a GP38-2 built by EMD for Penn Central Railroad as PC 8068, to Conrail as CR 8068 and finally ... (more)

I caught Norfolk Southern Train P75 leaving the caoital city of South Carolina in December of 2007 with SD70M-2 #2664 pulling a short train through Devine Junction. She was built in 2005 by EMD fo... (more)