There are those events to which we can look back and say "I'm glad I was there". This was such an event. "We don't need no stinking diesels!" Up the steepest mainline grade... (more)

While preparing to move NCTM's Southern GP30 from a roundhouse track to the turntable, the engineer starts up the EMD, shooting a could of smoke into the sky. Far above is a crescent moon, which i... (more)

Southern 4501 highballs Columbia for the NRHS Convention in Charleston. The old Union Station, now a restaurant, is seen in the distance. The wye tracks the train is riding over have been pulled... (more)

As Southern 4501 gets coaled out of view left, Alco S2 #2229 pulls away from the scene. The activity happens near the old Union Station, adjacent to the University of South Carolina campus.

SOU 4501 takes coal while stopped in front of the old Union Station. The train is enroute to the 1970 NRHS Convention in Charleston. Today this building is a California Dreaming restaurant, situ... (more)

Southern 4501 trails the 722 on this run of the Carolina Special as part of the 1970 NRHS Convention, held in Charleston celebrating 140 years of railroading there. The train is about to duck und... (more)

Another chase shot is made of the doubleheaded Carolina Special, led by Southern steam engines 722 & 4501, running a Charleston-Savannah excursion via the SCL mainline. The train is about to duc... (more)

The Carolina Special passes over the SCL raceway, enroute to Savannah from Charleston. Powered by doubleheaded steam courtesy of Southern #'s 722 & 4501, fans on the back porch enjoy the ride. Ch... (more)

Doubleheaded with 4501, the Southern 722 powers the southbound leg of the Carolina Special over the SCL approaching Green Pond. The train will turn at Savannah and return to Charleston, site of t... (more)

Photographer- Unknown at this time- possibly R. Hartman. Original 35mm Kodachrome slide Purchased from R. Palmer. Here we find the last Southern Rwy Ps-4 sans tender in Alexandria, VA after ... (more)

Southern Rwy F7 #4264 leads westbound at Hickory, NC (February 1971)

Looking brand new, Southern GP30 #2601 is the icing on the cake for a photo that looks to be Circa 1964. The road foreman dismounts after a ride along on an inbound freight to Spencer, NC.

Southern Railway No. 83 is approaching Raleigh Tower as three EMD B-B's begin their climb out of the capital city. No. 83 originated at the now ex-(original) Norfolk Southern facility, Glenwood Y... (more)

Southern Railway No. 83 has just departed ex-(original) Norfolk Southerns' Glenwood Yard. Southern Railway had acquired the (original) NS just the month before.

SOU Ry. No. 153, operating as Extra SOU 3114 South, is holding the west main track at Crabtree, NC, just north of Raleigh Yard, as SCL No. 190 ducks in on the east main to meet the southbound extr... (more)