CMC Steel crew in Cayce, South Carolina pulls a cut of cars out of the steel mill using a faux Alco S2.

Built as Seaboard SD50 #8513, this motor was upgraded to Dash 3 specs in 2009.

We were there to shoot the 1702, the railroad's steam engine. But I had not shot the GSMR's newest diesel (at the time) the ex-Santa Fe GP30. So while my friend swent back to the car to start the ... (more)

An old timer gets his shot of a fellow older timer, former Southern Railway 6133 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC.

Southern Railway 6133 was built by EMD in 19... (more)

Laurinburg And Southern #11 caboos fnds itself on the end of a phot freight charter led by Washington & Lincolnton 203 in Knoxville, Tennessee back in 2007. The photographers got to ride in the ca... (more)

A very rare train move brought a lot of color to the Midlands of South Carolina today in the way of this Amtrak train with nothing but privately owned passenger cars. The train was heading north a... (more)

In August 2007, I found Vintage Locomotives, Inc. (VILX). According to RRPA, she was built in 1964 by American Locomotive Company as Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México (NDEM) 8105.

For about a decade, a train sat on display at the historic Piedmont & Northern Railway depot in Belmont painted for the Milltowne Railway Line, a fictional railroad. The train had been moved to t... (more)

A Lancaster and Chester dinner train pulls out of Lancaster in March, 2004. They caled this train the Silver Streamliner Express. The consist this day was two former Conrail EMD SW1200s, 93 and 98... (more)

Heritage over Main Street in Columbia, SC

General Electric caboose 120239 brings up the rear of a Carolina Piedmont H&W load entering the CPDR yard in Laurens.

We were hearing a train coming toward Hamlet from the Wilmington side, but weren't sure of it's symbol. Seeing that it was led by two spartan cab Dash 8s, I hated to see it cross the diamonds with... (more)

No matter which of the two Class 1 railroads that sere Columbia brought the train into town, one it get to the capital city it was in the hands of Norfolk Southern. On this day, they had already p... (more)

Pickens GE U18B #9508 was built as Seaboard Coast Line SCL #334 in 1973 ---> Seaboard SBD1932 ---> CSXT 1932 ---> CSXT 9508 (MoW service) She is one of a small fleet of vintage GEs that soldier... (more)

Eleven years later, I am still coming across files I had not touched yet of the heritage event in Spencer.