A 1949 vintage bay window cab - in rare G&F lettering - spends a gray afternoon at Southern's yard near the IM terminal in North Charleston. The yellow band signifies local service, but I don't k... (more)

NS 8958 and NS 2688 lead a westbound autorack train out of the tree lined track into the sunlight in North Charleston.

CSX 215, with SD40-2 CSX 8061, MP15 CSX 1142, and B40-8 CSX 5934 back their train down past to Amtrak station into the CSX yard near North Charleston, South Carolina.

A local switching crew heads out from Bennett Yard bound for a shift at the South Carolina Ports yard at the east end of Remount Road in Hanahan.

The usually nocturnal Champion - running several hours late - has just finished its station stop at North Charleston and is resuming its southward trek.

SCL 841 passes AY Tower as it takes a local north from Bennett Yard.

It isn't a pretty spot where the Palmetto, northbound on the former ACL mainline, is seen crossing the Southern Railway in 1980. But it is a very historic one as Southern began life here one hundr... (more)

A crew member pours used oil on a tight curve on the way to service the warehouse of a North Charleston beer distributor.

Paired with a GP38-2, SCL U18B 329 heads one of the many Charleston area locals on its last lap into Bennett Yard, just a few hundred yards ahead.

It's a safe bet the guys redoing the billboard don't realize that 120, which runs day after day after day behind U36Bs offers 3 diesel treats this day, with a Uceta-rebuilt GP16, a U25C, and a nea... (more)

Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven, or so the Pillsbury ad campaign claimed. In this photo, the Southern steam assembled for this day's excursion emerges from the depths of the Sout... (more)

F746 passes the ACL signal bridge at North Charleston as it curves onto the Andrews Sub for a run up the old SAL to switch seaside industries.

Lead by one of my favorite locomotive models, a freight heads into the yard at North Charleston. I remember photographing brand new C40-8's in 1990 at the ripe old age of 13.

Hamlet-Waycross freight Q491 passes under an old ACL signal bridge at the NS crossing in Charleston.