EMD SW900, LC #91, the resident switcher used to load cars at the Circle S Feed Mill at Richburg, SC.

Lancaster & Chester 91 - The last original switcher left on the railroad pulling a cut of cars at Circle S

LC 91 is now a plant switcher at Circle S east of Richburg. It was built for the L&C in 1965, and has spent the latter third of its career at this location.

A L&C crew brings a train into Lancaster, SC after a pretty healthy snowfall by South Carolina standards.

L&C SW900 91 is in the capable hands of Circle S Feed Ranch as they unload a grain train from said railroad from early the previous morning. The little switcher was built for the L&C in October 19... (more)

L&C SW900 #91 takes a few minutes to catch her breath at Circle S Feed Mill in Bascomville, South Carolina.

Lancaster and Chester #91 was the last SW900 built. It rolled off the assembly line in October, 1965 with sister unit #90. Fifty two years later, the end cab switcher is still on the L&C, though i... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has GP38M-2 #2268 leading two sister GPs through Circle S with part of a grain train. The feed mill crew has made sure L&C SW900 #91 is out of the way to let the roa... (more)

Circle S Feed Mill crew gets ready to move L&C SW900 #91 out od the way so the L&C can bring in the second half of a CSX grain train in 2014.

Circle S Ranch Feed Mill opened up in 1998. At the time, the L&C rostered all EMD end cabs, but with the new traffic online as well as a later purchase of the former Southern Railway SB Line in La... (more)

L&C #91 is one of two SW900s bought new by the L&C in 1965

Lancaster and Chester heads northward on the former Southern Railway trackage during their first week of operations on the branch to the ADM facility in Kershaw, SC.

Lancaster & Chester’s Chester train works at the small yard that is the interchange point with CSX east of Chester, South Carolina.

Two Lancaster & Chester SW900’s work a cut of CSX box cars east of Chester, South Carolina.

The Lancaster & Chester local pulls a cut of cars out of the GAF Materials east of Chester, South Carolina. The contrast between the short line EMD switchers and the oversized box cars has always ... (more)