Under The Stars: This little critter was once hidden away inside the BASF Plant right up the road from this spot, but now BASF/Honeywell is closed and a new paper mill, First Quality, has ... (more)

'Twas 2 nights before Christmas, and all 3 GEs lay, where 2 stay put, and 1 waits to work another day...

Stormy Start: It's 7:04am, Anderson County is still under a severe thunderstorm watch, but that doesn't supress the unique chugging of a U18Bs V8 motor as Pickens' Anderson Job has started ... (more)

PICK 9500 leads the Anderson Job, Long Hood Forward, over US 29 on its way back to Gluck after making a rare mileage trip to meet the Belton Job just before town to pick up the cars it has in tow.... (more)

Pickens 9507, a U18B, burbles south just outside Anderson, South Carolina. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

The Pickens Railway's Anderson and Belton jobs sit side by side in downtown Anderson before heading back to Gluck and Dosheno respectively.

After passing through the tunnel under downtown Anderson, the Pickens Belton job heads home through a run down industrial area.

NS 2565 leads the James Strates carnival train passenger cars to the downtown yard to assemble the train for departure.

SCL 4713 pulls onto Southern Railway tracks after working South Anderson industries. They will run to Belton on Southern tracks, as SCL's former P&N tracks to Belton have been abandoned.

Welcome to the Eastside! PICK 9507 crosses E. Whitner Street in Anderson's Eastside as Mr. Buck and Dave prepare to pick up and set out a few storage tankers out of the House Track for Norf... (more)

Headed Back Home... PICK 9500 heads back home light engine due to Norfolk Southern screwing them up being that they hadn't run since Monday due to the Winter Storm that ripped through the a... (more)

Crossing Over Remnants of History and Snow! Mr. Buck and Dave head back home to Belton after meeting the Anderson Job at the Interchange downtown. The line below is the old connection line ... (more)

One of the coolest parts of the PICK is the "tunnel", which I believe is just a series of bridges, under downtown Anderson.

A Rocky Bridge over Rocky Creek! In a very unusal move, the Anderson Job crew ran from Gluck to Belton to pick up the two hoppers, seen in this shot, to take back to the Owens Corning Plant... (more)