Pickens Railroad U18B #9500 is on the point of the railroad's Anderson Job in July 2014. The vintage locomotive was built by General Electric in 1974.

Pickens Railway #9502 is one the point of the railroad's Belton Job as the two trains meet to interchange cars at Gluck. She was built as Seaboard Coast Line #320, a GE U18B, in 1973. She later be... (more)

Pickens Railway Belton Job emerges from the tunnel under downtown Anderson to meet with the Anderson Job coming from Gluck.

Pickens Railway crew finishes switching the Norfolk Southern yard in downtown Anderson and will soon for Belton

Two ex-CSX U18Bs are in charge of their train heading to the Norfolk Southern interchange in downtown Anderson in 2005.

With a hefty train in tow, a pair of Pickens Railroad baby boats ducks under some huge shade trees as they make their way back to Anderson.

The Belton Job soars over Broadway Creek with its two GEs making easy work of three empties for CSX. They've just block swapped with the Anderson Job and are headed back to pull the other half of ... (more)

The Anderson Job pops out from under downtown Anderson with three empties for the Greenville and Western that it'll hand off to the Belton Job at Plantation. They'll return with loads pulled by th... (more)

After working First Quality and Michelin, the Anderson Job rolls into its namesake town to set off 12 of its cars on the NS interchange. The former CSX Baby Boats in MOW orange paint are quite a c... (more)

The Anderson Job's U18B duo belches smoke as the engineer throttles up while switching the huge First Quality Tissue plant just south of Anderson.

A pair of Pickens Railroad's ex-CSX "Baby Boats" roll past Pregis as they head toward the Greenville and Western interchange in Belton. The Anderson job will follow behind them momentari... (more)

The Pickens Belton Job returns to Anderson with a healthy cut of cars from the Greenville & Western

Pickens U18B's #9502 & #9508 bring the Belton job through Anderson

Pickens Railroad U18B's #9502 & #9508 pull the Belton local across Sayre Street at Anderson,SC on their way back to Starr.

If there's anything that optimizes the old and venerable shortline railroad, one of the best symbols of that would be old and forgotten motive power from days past. The Pickens Railroad doesn't ju... (more)