After starting out the day in Laurens, SC and running down the CN&L Sub, CSXT W999's turbine load is about to pull into Cayce Yard as it crosses over the Congaree River. As luck would have it, th... (more)

With the next batch of high hoods slated for auction in mid-August, we continue to be fortunate enough to have these classic engines in Columbia. While they swap cars around the yard a majority of... (more)

Running the Ditch. Bearing its load of mostly autoracks, Q211 heads through the Ditch--constructed in the late 1980s to eliminate traffic congestion and allow for City expansion--through Co... (more)

With the next batch of high hoods slated for auction in mid-August, we continue to be fortunate enough to have these classic engines in Columbia. While they swap cars around the yard a majority o... (more)

The twice weekly local out of Cayce Yard has made it's way across the river and over to Columbia as it comes out of Devine Junction heading toward Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard.

The twice weekly local out of Cayce Yard has made it's way across the river and over to Columbia as it heads into Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard to service a customer.

Since Mr. Harrison's take over of CSX, the Columbia area has seen some various changes to rail traffic patterns. One such change is the addition of F764 (Lugoff switcher) coming down to Cayce Yard... (more)

A Cayce Yard crew works to sort cars around various parts of their yard as they pass a closed off crossing in downtown Cayce.

Since Mr. Harrison's take over of CSX, the Columbia area has seen some various changes to rail traffic patterns. One such change is the addition of F764 (Lugoff switcher) coming down to Cayce Yard... (more)

Since Mr. Harrison's take over of CSX, the Columbia area has seen some various changes to rail traffic patterns. One of the major changes was the reroute of Q463/464. What once used the Hamlet S... (more)

Historic R Line. Norfolk Southern continues to operate the Southern's R line, which was built in 1852 by the Charlotte & S.C. Railroad. As NS's main line to Charlotte from Columbia and Char... (more)

Norfolk Southern decided to stick a KCS Belle on the head end of a grain train bound for Monetta, SC while in Linwood Yard. It made an early morning run down the R-Line and came into Columbia aro... (more)