I remember remarking soon after CN got these that they were being sold off very early in the their working lives, to our benefit of course, adding a new model to the domestic scene. I miss the Ca... (more)

NS 15R at the CSX Crossing in Chester with the Jersey Central Heritage Engine leading

NS 15R pulls up and prepares to shove into the interchange track to drop 27 cars for the Lancaster and Chester. Empty corn train 51W, interchanged from L&C, with NS 4014 is starting to get their ... (more)

After nearly eight hours of work, the motive power for Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has returned to the yard at Chester and will sit here overnight until doing it all over again the next day. Ne... (more)

A nice example for a unit formerly owned by BN, then inherited by BNSF is on the local today. They will turn back north here.

Lancaster & Chester train 12 entering Chester Yard Limits

Lancaster and Chester Railroad’s Train 16 crosses Old Richburg Road as they switch cars at the connection track to the CSX interchange near Chester, SC.

Lancaster and Chester Railroad's Train 16 works cars at the connection track to the CSX interchange near Chester, SC.

15R crosses CSX and pulls in to work Chester.

15R finally gains some speed after making a setoff for the Lancaster and Chester at Chester. Here they are southbound at Blackstock.

The Interstate heritage unit leads 15R southward toward Columbia at Cornwell, SC.

CSX W003 at South End Landrum in Chester

Going back a minute to the first time I saw the three L&C Railway GPs all in their Springmaid Blue paint.

What she lacks in aesthetics, she makes up for in... Well, anyway, the railroads only GP40-2LW on site leads LC 16 as the crew shoves back to the CSX interchange.

Lanncaster and Chester Train 14 shoves back to the CSX interchange in East Chester with L&C 9548 on lead. She was built in March, 1975 as Canadian National 9548. Gulf & Ohio Railways purchased thi... (more)