After sitting on the siding and waiting for a coal train to meet them, the crew of CSXT W297 has just gotten under way again as they roll down the grade at S.E. Shands. This location is perfect f... (more)

An empty CSX coal train sits in the S.E. Shands siding as it waits for another train on the Monroe Sub to pass by. The grade in this location is evident by the accordion like effect of all the co... (more)

Ratty looking CW44AC, CSX 27, leads a load of three large gas turbines south on the CSX CN&L Sub past some farms just south of Clinton, SC.

A southbound off of the CSX Monroe subdivision pulls out of Clinton, SC with four road units leading an extremely long train.

CSXT 27 leads southbound W994-06 past the former Seaboard searchlight signal in downtown Clinton.

SD45 2034 leads a northbound freight along what was - and is - perhaps the most important former Seaboard Air Line route, the Atlanta to Hamlet mainline.

SCL was loaded with high-horsepower B-B diesels in the early 1970s when it - maybe because of sister road L&N's success with the model - decided to purchase 56 GP38-2s in 1973. They'd get four mo... (more)

Since getting to South Carolina last fall, one of the operations that has eluded me is the CSX coal operations between the eastern SC power plants, and the coal fields. These coal trains used to c... (more)