L&C SW900 #91 takes a few minutes to catch her breath at Circle S Feed Mill in Bascomville, South Carolina.

Lancaster and Chester #91 was the last SW900 built. It rolled off the assembly line in October, 1965 with sister unit #90. Fifty two years later, the end cab switcher is still on the L&C, though i... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has GP38M-2 #2268 leading two sister GPs through Circle S with part of a grain train. The feed mill crew has made sure L&C SW900 #91 is out of the way to let the roa... (more)

Circle S Feed Mill crew gets ready to move L&C SW900 #91 out od the way so the L&C can bring in the second half of a CSX grain train in 2014.

Circle S Ranch Feed Mill opened up in 1998. At the time, the L&C rostered all EMD end cabs, but with the new traffic online as well as a later purchase of the former Southern Railway SB Line in La... (more)

L&C #91 is one of two SW900s bought new by the L&C in 1965

Lancaster and Chester heads northward on the former Southern Railway trackage during their first week of operations on the branch to the ADM facility in Kershaw, SC.

Lancaster & Chester’s Chester train works at the small yard that is the interchange point with CSX east of Chester, South Carolina.

Two Lancaster & Chester SW900’s work a cut of CSX box cars east of Chester, South Carolina.

The Lancaster & Chester local pulls a cut of cars out of the GAF Materials east of Chester, South Carolina. The contrast between the short line EMD switchers and the oversized box cars has always ... (more)

The Lancaster & Chester road train works a string of cars that wraps all the way around to the GAF Materials plant in the background. Today this track is fenced and gated, and trees obstruct almos... (more)

L&C 91 sits coupled to a few assorted 4-bays at the Circle S mill on a cloudy night with only the sounds of crickets, frogs, and the faint hum from the mill breaking the silence.

Lancaster & Chester’s daily train to Chester works at Orrs, South Carolina. A pair of SW900’s bring their train around the wye.

Before the acquisition of a small fleet of road switchers, South Carolina shortline Lancaster & Chester’s roster had been dominated by EMD switchers for several decades. Here SW900 91 stands nea... (more)