Holiday Shipping! This hotshot intermodal passes the Spartanburg Depot on the Southern Main carrying a load of trailers for points north.

Bar Code. The Bar Code Unit came to Columbia on the front of 13R, which is a fairly new train established after the yard at Linwood was closed. Here, it proceeds toward Andrews Yard off th... (more)

Splitting the Signals. Making some smoke, the NS local moves past some remnant Southern signals as it heads out from Hayne Yard toward Magnolia Street to proceed down the Southern/NS W-Lin... (more)

Local Freight on Historic Line. AIKR Z522 returns toward the Aiken Yard from the Norfolk Southern interchange at Warrenville on its way to Carolina Eastern and AGY. In making these moves, ... (more)

Working on the Railroad. As a CSX MOW crew works in an area where CSX and NS have lines in close proximity, an NS local heads through Devine Junction and toward an area where the railroads... (more)

Running Southern style past an old Southern searchlight signal, NS P75 heads out to perform its local jobs on the R Line (also formerly the Southern's).

Getting Underway. Led by an NS Dash 9, which once wandered the countryside in mighty herds but now is nearly extinct, this CSX special movement pulls a Siemens generator out of Cayce yard ... (more)

High Hood Local Part 2. Although it was the same unit, I felt fortunate to catch a High Hood unit for the second time in a week and in a different location. Here, former SOU 5218 leads P75... (more)

Wheeling Power. L&C 16, led by the remnant HH still in original L&C colors, takes a load of cars past the iconic Wagon Wheel restaurant in Fort Mill on its way to the ADM facility in Kersh... (more)

Augusta Special Redux? NS 270 leads the OCS down the Southern's R-Line through the quaint town of Ridge Spring, SC, on the way to Augusta, GA. This is the route that the Southern's Augusta... (more)

Spartanburg Aerial. NS 203 heads south past NS 204 at the Spartanburg, SC Depot. Spartanburg once had multiple tracks on both sides of the depot, including an interchange with the Piedmon... (more)

Saturday Passengers. Viewed from a river cruise around New York, this Metro-North train takes passengers south on this sunny Saturday.

Going to the City. With the City of Columbia skyline in the background and USC's Bates Hall to the right, the CG leads a grain train destined for Monetta, SC toward Andrews Yard.

Union Station Revisited. NS 270 leads the OCS past the historic Union Station in Columbia, SC, which is now the California Dreaming restaurant. The Green's discount beverage place next doo... (more)

With the old Union Station in the background, NS 6755 leads an intermodal train into Devine Junction on its way to upstate South Carolina on the Southern's W Line.