The Greenville & Western begins their trip south to Belton

Greenville & Western 4204 crosses a creek in South Carolina just prior to stalling out.

GRLW GP9 High Hood #3752 leads a Greenville & Western Freight Train southbound across Big Creek in Williamston, SC., as they head to Belton to interchange with the Pickens Railroad. Norfolk Southe... (more)

AIKR EMD GP30 #4201 and GRLW EMD GP9 #3752 run light through Willamston, SC on the way to the CSX interchange in Pelzer.

Big Creek. After picking up a cut of cars in Pelzer, the GRLW heads through Williamston to get to Belton and interchange with the Pickens Railroad. Here, it passes over Big Creek near Spri... (more)

Movement. After picking up a cut of cars from the CSX Interchange in Pelzer, SC, this beautiful High Hood GP9 passes through Williamston on its way to deliver the cars to the Pickens Railr... (more)

Greenville & Western GP9 #3752 crosses Gossett Drive in Williamston,SC on its way south to Belton to interchange with the Pickens.

Greenville & Western GP30M 4204 pulls one load of scrap metal across Big Creek in Williamston, SC, nearing their interchange with CSX.

Greenville and Western just took over from CSX and grinds southbound on the former Piedmont and Northern with an ethanol unit train for the Kinder Morgan terminal a few miles ahead.

Engineer Allen Gibbs has these vintage EMD products pulling hard up the grade with 26 cars out of the CSX interchange in Pelzer.

Many of these wooden bridges around the upstate of South Carolina have been closed in the last few years. This one over the former Piedmont and Northern has been a target for me since acquiring t... (more)

The pair of BNSF C4 Gevos on the head of this Greenville & Western unit ethanol train look extremely out of place on a piece of track being reclaimed by the Carolina woods.

Greenville & Western local Z590-08 with Long Hood Forward GP9 3751 rounds a curve in Williamston with 2 scrap gondolas bound for Cheddar,SC.

Greenville and Western GP9 #3752 leads a 57 car train across the bridge over Mineral Spring Park headed north to interchange with CSX at Pelzer, SC. The crew for the day is fellow RP.net contribut... (more)

Greenville & Western's matched set of GP-9's lead the southbound local through Mineral Spring Park on a very warm (for December) evening in the upstate of South Carolina. The Christmas wreaths ar... (more)