The switcher for Cosgrove Yard, in North Charleston, prepares to pull out with only locomotives, and grab empty wood chip cars off the track to the far right. Once he gets the chip cars, the conne... (more)

US Navy 65-tonner #65-00469 at Charleston Navy Base in 1986.

A crewman flags the Croghan run across Arlington Road (I think) on its return down the branch to Johns Island and the ex-ACL mainline. Once there, they will rejoin the rest of their train - the h... (more)

A crew heads back to the yard with a cut of cars from the Cooper River port area downtown.

Brand-new 5224 switches North Charleston. That pulpwood may be headed for Westvaco's plant on the Cooper River a couple miles south of here.

SCL ran lots of U36Bs and GP40s through Charleston in the late 1970s, but this northbound has a GP38-2 and former Clinchfield U36C trailing. In a couple hundred yards, they'll cross the Ashley Ri... (more)

A local (maybe the Walterboro train?) led by a pair of GP7s swings out of the superelevated curve a few hundred yards south of Bennett Yard. They're still in the flood plain (or is it tidal flats... (more)

Nearly-new SCL 4219 sits at the Bennett Yard engine facility awaiting the next shift. This shot illustrates the 'good old days' - when railroads could just dump whatever, wherever.

Caboose KRL 078, which is part of the red Schnabel Car WECX 800, is in the Port Terminal yard near historic downtown Charleston on Memorial Day. As the logo says, "Red 'N Ready" for this massive ... (more)

Everything is shut down as twilight descend on the NS yard in Charleston, South Carolina.

Kasgro Rail Lines 340326 with a large Siemens gas turbine rests in the Port Terminal yard near historic downtown Charleston.

Schnabel Cars WECX 800 (red) & WECX 801 (blue) rest together in the Port Terminal yard near historic downtown Charleston on Memorial Day.

SCL 5140 waits at the junction between the main and the branch to Croghan. The crew has taken a GP7 and a few cars into the few shippers left west of the Ashley River across from downtown Charles... (more)

After a trip down the branch to Croghan, just across the Ashley River from downtown Charleston, the crew has the power for their Walterboro-Bennett Yard turn back at the mainline at Johns Island. ... (more)