A local CSX crew is using a road slug and mother to work Tucker Materials in Columbia, South Carolina, CSXT 2214 is the road slug. It was built as Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) GP35 3529 in 196... (more)

Built in 1973 as Seabord Coast Line GP38-2 #512, she's actually been in service longer for CSX than she was for the SCL. I caught her fouling Assembly Street in Columbia, South Carolina on CSX Y10... (more)

A local CSX crew is using a road slug and mother to work the Cayce to Columbua turn Y102. CSXT 2214 is the road slug. It was built as Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) GP35 3529 in 1964. Ir has sin... (more)

A CSX crew out of Cayce, South Caroline has shoved back onto a scrap yard spur and tied their train down for the night in October 2006. CSXT 6441 is an EMD GP40-2 built for the Baltimore & Ohio Ra... (more)

The rear end of a loaded coal train passes over Assembly Street in Columbia, South Caolina back 2009. CSX #703 is a General Electric ES44AC-H built in 2007. It is an DPU in this shot which stands ... (more)

CSX Q494 passes the Village at Sandhill in northeast Columbia, South Carolina on it's then-daily trip from Cayce to Hamlet, NC and back.

Norfolk Southern 4139 leads an intermodal train int Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina in Jauary 2020. From the fact he is off the main line, I suspect there was a meet here with a northboun... (more)

Norfolk Southern SD60M leads a graiin train past the old Union Station in Columbia, South Carolina heaing to Amick Fams in nearby Batesburg-Leesville. NS 6797 was built in 1993 for Conrail as CR 5... (more)

Norfolk Southern Train 191 is stopped at Assembly Street in Columbia, South Carolin as it waits on anothr train to clear the track ahead of it. NS 6717 was an EMD SD60I buillt in 1994 as Conrail (... (more)

In 2008, I caught the daily Cayce too Sumter, South Carolina local through Columbia one morning while on a break from work.

Nearing the end of their service life on CSX, these two Dash 7s are on a local in Columbia, SC. The lead unit was built as Seaboard System (SBD) 5891 in 1985.

Norfolk Southern 8795 brings a lot cut of BMWs fom their plant in Greer, South Carolina through Columbia in 2011. NS 8795 was built in 1995 as a General Electric C40-9. It has been rebuilt since t... (more)

It's late afternoon on a brisk autumn day in November 2008 and a two train is taking place at Assembly Street in Columbia, Souh Carolina. The conductor for the outgoing train is ready to perform h... (more)

In September I caught a Harsco Railgrinder sitting in Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina. It had recently been built in the Harsco plant in West Columbia and shipped out v... (more)

An empty Norfolk Southern grain train passes Maintenance of Way crews in Columbia, South Carolina heading northbound on the R Line. NS 7635 is a General ES40DC built in 2007. The MoW gang got pull... (more)