Carolina Piedmont 2079 helps bring a short train off of the BASF spur in Simpsonville, South Carolina on November 8, 2022. CPDR 2079 is an EMD GP3802 built as Chicago & Northwestern (CNW) 4613 in ... (more)

Happy Halloween from Aberdeen

The staff at the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western have decorated ACWR GP-7 896 and cars for Halloween. I liked the spider on top of the car, while m... (more)

General Electric caboose (GECX) 120239 brings up the rear of a high and wide load on the Carolina Piedmont Railroad. The GE plant in Greenville, South Carolina routinely ships out these huge wind ... (more)

A colorful lashup, consisting of ex Illinois Central 101, ex Alaska RR 30, ex Iowa Pacific 540, ex CN 5548 and ex CN 5527, sit outside the Aberdeen, Carolina & Western shop in Candor, North Caroli... (more)

Bridging the River. The ACWR passenger train movement pauses on the bridge at the Yadkin-Pee Dee Hydro Project.

In late 2013, a Greenville & Western crew gets another run with the Aiken Railway GP30 #4201 before she is sent to home rails for the first time.

A Lancaster and Chester crew brings a grain train for Circle S Feed Mill into Richburg, SC in Chester county.

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

Former FEC GP40-2 #505 sits at the South Carolina Central yard in Floyd, South Carolina back in July of 2013. The locomotive was built for the Florida East Coast Railway in 1978.

This was my first trip to Social Circle, Georgia and I haven't been able to get back since. While I'm happy to have gotten this shot, I was hoping to catch the railroad running with one or both of... (more)

Built in 1951 for Lehigh Valley and given the number 268. Upon the formation of Conrail in the 1970s, it became Conrail (CR) 8682. It now works its golden years at the Archer Daniels Midland facil... (more)

A Laurinburg and Southern Railroad engineer onboard LRS #9528 pulls a string of tank cars out of the CSX interchange in the summer of 2013. The locomotive was built in 1972 as Penn Central EMD SW1... (more)

L&C crew shoves a short train down to a storage in transit yard in East Chester, South Carolina on April 22, 2019.

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 gets some empty grain cars out of the sidings in Richburg, South Carolina back in 2018. Meanwhile, a fellow railfan gets his shot from a different angle.

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Lancaster and Chester Train 14 sits at the Kershaw, South Carolina Archer-Daniels-Midland plant in April 2013 waiting for a crew to move her. L&C 3819 was built in 1978 as Conrail #8230, to Norfol... (more)