Raleigh & Fayetteville RF01 finishes working the Harnett Transload Intermodal facility and prepares to continue south to Fayetteville.

LRS crew has just cut one of the three SW1500s off their train to take some tank cars into Laurinburg. The two motors on the right will couple onto the rear of the train.

On March 31, 2014, I had chased the circus train from Columbia, South Carolina up the NS R Line to Chester. Since I was so close, I made my way to the Lancaster and Chester and caught LC 14 passin... (more)

Raleigh already had a pretty good amount of variety between CSX, NS, Amtrak and NCDOT equipment being daily fixtures. RJ Corman's new Raleigh & Fayetteville adds even more variety. Train RF01 has ... (more)

RF01 breaks the silence in the Town of Linden as they roll through on their way south.

LC 12 sits on the E&J Gallo lead, aka "The Trench," as they wait for LC 14 to assist with some switching.

Lancaster and Chester crew works the industries on the East Chester trackage on a gorgeous autumn day in 2013. She was built in 1966 as Detroit Toledo & Ironton (DTI) 201


to Grand... (more)

One of my favorite spots to shoot the L&C is on their original line near where Williams Estate Road and Jenna Lane meet. Long trains snake up the line behind the power toward Memorial Park Road.

During the RailAmerica-era on the South Carolina Central Railroad, they rostered two former Grand Trunk Western units, one of which I caught in 2010 working the yard in Darlington County.

Knoxville Locomotive Works KLWX 1998 is parked on a small spur track just west of the Rural Hall depot on the Yadkin Valley Railroad. After seeing a lone Yadkin Valley diesel unit parked next to ... (more)

Aberdeen & Rockfish GP7 205 and GP38 400 leading train AF18 across Rockfish Creek on the way to Fayetteville

L&C EMD SW900 #90 approaches Springdale Rd. in Lancaster, SC in a paint scheme similiar to what she wore upon delivery to the South Carolina shortline in 1965. Note the old siding to the left of t... (more)

L&C GP40-2LW #9548 leads Train 14 in Lancaster. She wis the first wide nose unit on the shortline's roster. She was built in March, 1975 as Canadian National 9548. Gulf & Ohio Railways purchased t... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Railway Santa Train was southbound on the old Southern Railway SB Line in 2021. Most of the time when I shot the L&C Santa Train, the weather was gloomy. 2012 was one of the ... (more)

L&C Railroad 7092 is spending the Thanksgiving Weekend in Lancaster, South Carolina coupled to some gondola cars o the former Southern Railway SB Line.

Lancaster and Chester Railroad 70... (more)