Carolina Piedmont 2020 sits at the CPDR office in Laurens, SC as CSX high and wide W994-06 shoves out of the yard to the left. The conductor standing on the rear of the train truly gives a since o... (more)

The CPDR road power trio, consisting of three GP38's, pulls a high and wide movement to a stop in Laurens so the loads can be "walked" under the bridge in which I have made my vantage po... (more)

First portion of the movement of two large GE turbines (Greenville-Laurens, SC via the Carolina Piedmont Railroad) comes to an end as the train pulls into Laurens. CSX would take the load to Cayce... (more)

Carolina Piedmont geeps sit at the CPDR office in Laurens, SC. The metal structure in the background is what is left of an old Mill, once a major customer of the railroad, now nothing more than a ... (more)

Republic Locomotives demonstrator RL-2000 at Laurens, SC || March 1988

After re-arranging the train consist prior to departure, the World's LARGEST high efficiency gas turbine begins the final leg of its 9,000 mile journey which began across the Atlantic in F... (more)

ex ICG 8379

A beautifully painted CSXT 7537 sits in perfect sunlight at Laurens, SC... before they blew it!

Republic Locomotive #2000, rebuilt from a L&N GP35, seen here on lease to the Carolina-Piedmont in Laurens, March 1991.