CSX 7541 leads a freight train out of the rail yard in Sumter, South Carolina back in 2012. The locomotive was built new by General Electric for CSX in 1989. CSX sold it to Maine Central in 2017 a... (more)

CSXT SD50 #8640 leads a short train of gondolas filled with railroad ties past CMC Steel in Cayce, South Carolina. I believe this motor has since been scapped. She was built in 1985 for the Chesap... (more)

Norfolk Southern 155 crosses the CSX diamond in the Devine Junction of Columbia, South Carolina in 2013 led by Norfolk Southern 6580. hewasbuilt in 1986 as Chicago & Northwestern SD60 8039, then t... (more)

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


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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.

A CSX local crew crosses Assembly to get back to the Eastover Sub. There is no car traffic between me and the train because a freight is still blocking the crossing behind me. Thanks, guys!

An empty coal train eases into the old Clinchfield Railroad yard in Spartanburg, South Carolina for a crew change before proceeding northbound in 2007. The bridge is lettered for a nearby college.

CSXT SD60 8715 is on point of a train making a few moves around the railroad's Cayce, South Carolina yard in 2007. The locomotive was built by EMD in 1989 for Conrail as CR 6851. CSX got it when C... (more)

Three Buckingham Branch locomotives congregate in Dowell, Virginia on a brisk winter day in February 2006. BB 2 is a rebuilt GP16 which was originally built in 1950 as Seaboard Airline (SAL) EMD G... (more)

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.

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The 2009 edition of the Lancaster and Chester Railway Santa Train approaches the old wooden bridge over the railroad line in Pleasent Hill, South Carolina.
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