With a quartet of F3's, Southern's Train 68 has crested the grade at Balsam Gap, N.C. on the Murphy Branch on its way back to Asheville. If the crew is cool, perhaps they are unaware the nose do... (more)

Southern 2815 waits at the Henry Street yard after delivering an interchange cut of cars.

Train #155 blasts through Magnolia and past the Spartanburg passenger station.

Norfolk Southern 3105 leads #154 north past the passenger station.

Southbound train #5 departing Ponoma Yard in Greensboro, NC || Sept 1972

Rockton & Rion 2-8-2 No. 19 has just brought cars to interchange with Southern as its Local with RS-3 2052 arrives at Rockton, South Carolina on April 12, 1963. Southern's local has 25 loads of S... (more)

At the old South Shop of Southern Railway (later renamed Pegram, in honor of retired v.p. Robert B. Pegram), Ps-4 Pacific 1408 is in the processing of receiving a Class 3 (heavy repairs) overhaul.... (more)

Southern local power (GP30 & B30-7A) tied up at Greenwood, SC || August 1973

Tom Golden photo.

Train # 68 is passing in front of the Stevens cotton mill, near Clemson, SC. Destination is Anderson.

An extra out of Andrews Yard in Columbia works on the line that once ran all the way to Hardeeville and was part of Southern's route to Florida via ACL trackage rights. The line to Augusta is just... (more)

Southern 630 waits for a local to pass before departing Spartanburg.

In a part of Columbia that in 1980 was blanketed with every kind of rail line from mains to one-customer spurs, a GP38-2 works on a bright winter morning. Most mains are still here today, but non-... (more)

A freight out of Andrews Yard curves past the passenger station and under the SCL (SAL) viaduct as it nears Devine Junction with absolutely commonplace power for Southern in the Columbia area 30 y... (more)

SR 5207 leads two more GP38s and a GP35 into Andrews Yard with a train in from Spartanburg.