Morning Coal Run. With part of Columbia as a backdrop, CSX 321 passes alongside Assembly Street on its way to Andrews Siding. It will wait there for a few hours before another crew takes i... (more)

A former N&W unit looking like a newly painted ACL unit might have looked before it faded. Very few people saw one LOL. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Searching. Led by foreign power, the daily 242 container train passes a single-aspect searchlight, originally of Seaboard origin and provided to NS as part of the railroad reorganization i... (more)

Lancaster & Chester train 10 at Elgin on its way down to ADM in Kershaw

Lancaster & Chester train 10 passing the Southern Railway Depot in Heath Springs led by former Southern high hood GP38AC 2866

A Pee Dee River Railway crew has just dropped off a train for CSX in McColl, South Carolina. Now they are heading to pick up the train that CSX left for them. PDRR 1842 was built for Atlantic Coas... (more)

A South Carolina Central crew is shoving through a neighborhood in Hartsville, South Carolina in June 2006. The railroad was still owned by RailAmerica at the time and it survived for years withou... (more)

Pickens Railway shuffles cars in downtown Anderson, South Carolina in September 2004 as the after effects of a hurricane passes overhead. I was on the way to Atlanta on a work assignment and made ... (more)

An ex-Waccamaw Coastline GP18 leads a passenger excursion pulling out of the small town of Conway, South Carolina in June 2004. The ancestry of this locomotive seems obvious as the Norfolk & Weste... (more)

An ex-Waccamaw Coastline GP18 is on a passenger excursion waiting to pull out of the small town of Conway, South Carolina in June 2004. The ancestry of this locomotive seems obvious as the Norfolk... (more)

Making its maiden voyage in new paint on the point of 28R, Reading heritage engine 1067 basks in the morning sunlight as it crosses the Tugalo River into South Carolina. This train will terminate ... (more)

Lancaster & Chester train 14 at Knox Farm

Southern Serves the South!! Earlier in the day, NS 786 arrived in to Columbia with it's usual at the time trio of NS ES40DCs leading. But 4th out, was the recently refurbished NS 3170 p... (more)

Lancaster & Chester train 14 crossing the Catawba River

Early Morning Empties Run. Grain empties proceed by the former Union Station, now the California Dreaming restaurant, with a blue BC Rail unit trailing second.