The CSX daily Cayce to Hamlet, North Carolina train is on the former Seaboard Air Line Railway traveling northbound over Park Street in Columbia via a bridge built in the 1980s.

A Norfolk Southern crew delivers the first six axle power for the Lancaster and Chester in May of 2016.

Originally Southern Pacific 8257 (built 5/1980) future LC 6002 then became Union ... (more)

I made this photograph of the Sumter, South Carolina CSX railroad yard in September 2012, just four months after CSX ES44AC #3035 was built. Meanwhile, a second crew is on board CSX #7541 prepared... (more)

Norfolk Southern local P77 trudges slowly through the fog in Cayce, SC enroute to Edmunds. The train is led by Norfolk Southern (NS) 5575. It was built by EMD in 1971 as Norfolk & Western (NW) 414... (more)

NS 50Z is a grain train for Monetta, SC. Here, we see the MGA Heritage unit lead the NS unit and the 1030 through a curve in Richland, SC. These three units are fresh off the Heritage Event at the... (more)

A very short freight train passes the Aspyre apartment building in Columbia, South Carolina with CSX 2212 on lead. It was built by EMD in 1964 as Baltimore & Ohio Railroad GP35 3551. When CSX took... (more)

CSXT SD50 8645 lads a work train railroad south on the Hamlet, NC to Atlanta mainline in Springs 2006 with SD 4617 leading, one of the last locomotives in an ancestor scheme at the time I made the... (more)

A two train meet takes place on the L&C as LC 12 waits n the west end if the Circle S Feed Mill for LC 14 to pass. 14 is bound for Lancaster while 12 will go to Richburg to pick up the rest of her... (more)

I shot the Lancaster and Chester crossing Main Street in Richburg, SC with a grain train bound for Circle S Feed Mill in 2014. They are using six GP38-2 locomotives led by L&C GP38AC #3820 which h... (more)

The engine is a former Santa Fe GP7u, ATSF #2027. She became SCRF in a classy dark blue scheme with the outline of the Palmetto State as a logo. She had been painted during RailTex ownership of th... (more)

On 12/20/2010, vintage South Carolina Central power takes a cut of cars into Hartsville on 12/20/2010. I'm at a grade crossing, but for most of this railroad's existence, I would have been in the ... (more)

An empty coal train passes a parked work train in Irmo, South Carolina on the former Columbia, Newberry & Laurens line. CSX #6462 was built in 1980 as Louisville & Nashville GP40-2 #6600.

Interchange Work. The GRLW HH pushes a boxcar back past the switch so that the Pickens RR can then pick up the boxcar and take it to their line for delivery near Honea Path, SC.

I was a bit surprised by this somewhat unusual engine lash-up in the CSX yard back in 2011 of a GE AC6000CW and EMD GP38-2, though the smaller unit may not have been online.

CSX crew breaks up Train Q211 in the aftermath of a typically light Carolina snow on board CSXT 7303 which started life in 1990 as COnrail 6055. CSX sold it after this shot and is became GECX 7303... (more)