Pickens U18B No. 9503 bellows smoke after being fired up at the beginning of a wet, dreary day of work for the Belton Job.

Leaving the Norfolk Southern interchange in Anderson, the Pickens Belton Job ducks under a bridge wedged between old buildings in downtown beginning its trip back to Belton where the job's day be... (more)

Too much traffic for the infrastructure is a good problem to have. The Anderson Job with ex-CSX B40-8s has left their 40+ car train clear of crossing and pulled up to the NS interchange to confer... (more)

After picking up 2 loaded scrap gons from new customer CMC Recycling, the Belton Job gets back underway to Honea Path.

Cutting through a lingering mist on a dreary December afternoon in rural Upstate South Carolina, Pickens Railway's Belton job navigates a well defined S-curve outside of Belton, nearing its next ... (more)

Done with the day's work, two of the Pickens' 'Baby Boat' head back for the yard in Gluck. I feel lucky to have caught these on the Gluck Job as they are starting to be replaced by ex CSX B40-2's.... (more)

A bull grazes in a large field outside of Belton as the Pickens Railroad's Belton Job trots its way toward the Greenville & Western interchange with a single tanker in tow.

Maine Central yard, Bangor, Maine in August 1985. MEC U18B 402 with GP38 258.

A single U18B chugs up quite a hump along the haphazardly constructed former Southern Railway branch to Belton, SC.

PICK 9500 leads a northbound Pickens Railroad manifest north into Anderson, SC as it cuts through the morning fog.

PICK 9500 slices through thick morning fog to get to a cut of cars just ahead of us here in Anderson, South Carolina.

A short local freight is dwarfed by the Southern RR bridge over Broadway Creek, just east of Anderson, SC.

Some babies never grow up. While I've spent approximately 5% of my life in Anderson and photographed all the prior phases of the PKHP (Pickens Honea Path), as it was known at the time, it took me... (more)

Pickens Anderson Job shoves across Rte 81 with a couple hopper cars for Owens Corning.

Pickens Anderson Job takes headroom in at downtown Anderson before shoving their cut of cars into the NS interchange track.