Crossing Over Remnants of History and Snow! Mr. Buck and Dave head back home to Belton after meeting the Anderson Job at the Interchange downtown. The line below is the old connection line ... (more)

The Pickens crew brings the interchange over to the Greenville & Western.

Maine Central U18B 404 with new owner paint scheme Guilford Transportation.

One of the coolest parts of the PICK is the "tunnel", which I believe is just a series of bridges, under downtown Anderson.

Picked-A-Part... Ex. CSXT MoW 9501 sits on nothing but its own steps as it made to ultimate sacrifice to become a part donor for its sister units earning keep on Pickens. This thing won't b... (more)

Let's Play 'I Spy'! First up, 3 Ex. CSX MoW U18Bs, (from Left to Right) PICK 9508, PICK 9501, & PICK 9507. PICK 9508 used to be the power for the Belton Job before it decided to clunk out a... (more)

A Rocky Bridge over Rocky Creek! In a very unusal move, the Anderson Job crew ran from Gluck to Belton to pick up the two hoppers, seen in this shot, to take back to the Owens Corning Plant... (more)

The only one on the roster. We always hoped these would take off. If you ever heard that 8 cylinder engine roaring like a big old tractor you'd gain an affection for them.

Pickens 9503 basking in the sun near the yard office.

I SPY SOMETHING ORANGE... Kudos to the City of Anderson for their waste of money in building the new 7 story Parking Deck which remains empty 99% of the time, for providing this new photo o... (more)

Pickens' Belton-Anderson train heads west toward Anderson on former Southern/Blue Ridge RR trackage.

In the early 1970s 20 of these little GE locomotives took over from the Class NGG16 Garratt steam locomotives, and worked alongside the NG15 Steam locomotives until the late 1980s. Here, NG15 No ... (more)

Gosh, I wish these had caught on. They sounded kind of like a big tractor, nothing like the usual chugging FDL and the were, for lack of a better term, "cute". The early order had FB-2 trucks, l... (more)

Someone had clipped the wings of the eagle on the front of all of the MEC U boats. Crews drew them back in with a magic marker. The transition from Maine Central to Guilford was riddled with probl... (more)