Originally B&O ex Laurinburg & Southern recently relettered. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Laurinburg and Southern Railroad 131 sits among a plethora of older LRS power in 2004. She is an Alco S2 built in 1948 for the Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad.

LRS's power lays over for the weekend at their interchange yard with CSX, while an interesting prop was left on the crossing.

This former Union Railroad unit eases up to make a joint with some freight car, just another day. No name on the slide.

LRS crew has just cut one of the three SW1500s off their train to take some tank cars into Laurinburg. The two motors on the right will couple onto the rear of the train.

A Laurinburg and Southern Railroad engineer onboard LRS #9528 pulls a string of tank cars out of the CSX interchange in the summer of 2013. The locomotive was built in 1972 as Penn Central EMD SW1... (more)

A Johnson Railway Services NW2 sits at the Murphy-Brown Grain Mill in Laurinburg, North Carolina. The little switcher was built in 1948 as Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DTI) 915. She later... (more)

Johnson Railway EMD NW 2 139 waits at Murphy-Brown, LLC for more cars to unload in 2013. The little switcher was built in 1948 as Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DTI) 915. She later became L... (more)

CSX P001-28 pounds the Laurinburg Southern diamond at Laurinburg, North Carolina in pouring rain..

a Laurinburg & Southern carcass of undetermined number sits uout her final days before inevitable scrapping

As they often do, Laurinburg and Southern Railroad crew has split the power to work the interchange with CSX in Laurinburg. LRS SW1500 #9528 was built for the Penn Central

ex-Laurinburg & Southern SW9

My only visit to the Laurinburg & Southern was a stop at Laurinburg, North Carolina when nothing was running. Through a locked gate, a view of two 70-tonners was possible. Bicentennial unit 76 app... (more)

A veteran on the railroad, this one was the usual power until traffic began to increase.

Tucked away among the spare parts at the Laurinburg & Southern's diesel shop in Laurinburg, North Carolina, is engine 150, a GE 25-tonner. Built in May 1943 for the Bethlehem Steel Company, it wa... (more)