Modern Visitors. In a unique lashups, two Union Pacific Tier 4 SD70s lead an intermodal through Columbia on the way to the port in Charleston, SC. I understand that these two T4 units arri... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 has just picked up some cars from LC 12 and is now heading to Richburg to work the various industries there. With all of the changed I have seen on the L&C in 25 yea... (more)

In Janary 2009, I caught three frehly painted GPs on the L&C heading to Chester after working the industries in Rochburg.

I caught the green American Locomotive Company (Alco) S4 shoving cars back to the CMC Steel. She is lettered for the Chattahoochie Locomotive company, CLCX 1110, and painted for StarPets. Before b... (more)

CMC Steel crew in a Johnson Railway Alco in Cayce, South Carolina getting cars out of the CSX raol yard. This is a repowered America Locomotive Company (Alco) S2 originally bought in October 1946 ... (more)

A local CSX crew is using a road slug and mother to work Tucker Materials in Columbia, South Carolina, CSXT 2214 is the road slug. It was built as Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) GP35 3529 in 196... (more)

Lancaster and Chester 2829 is part of a six pack of locomotives on the L&C main line at Circle S Feed Mill in Bascomville, South Carolina. the set of power is moving away from us to couple up to t... (more)

Lancaster and Chester GP38-2 3819 and GP38AC 3820 work the industrial area in East Chester in 2008. The inspiration for the new L&C corporate paint scheme seems obvious seeing these two locomotiv... (more)

CSX crosses over the Catawna River into Lancaster, SC in a cold, damo and obviosly foggy day in 2016.

Nickel Plate Road #465 is a steel bay window caboose that somehow found it's way to the South Carolina Railroad Museum where it sits on display in Winnsboro. It was built in 1962 in Kenton, Ohio b... (more)

An old Southern Railway caboose sits at an old motel in Bennettsville, South Carolina. I found references to it once being rented out like a hotel room, but that must have been some time ago. Benn... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Railroad SD40T-3 leads LC 12 on the wye having excahnged cars with LC 16 in Janary 2018. The locomotive was built for the Southern Pacific as SP 8257 in 1984.

Norfolk Southern Train 191 crooses the Congaree River from Richland County into Lecington County. NS SD70M-2 2696 is the lead locomtoive. She was built by EMD in 2005 and sold to Progress Rail in ... (more)

Built in 1973 as Seabord Coast Line GP38-2 #512, she's actually been in service longer for CSX than she was for the SCL. I caught her fouling Assembly Street in Columbia, South Carolina on CSX Y10... (more)

A local CSX crew is using a road slug and mother to work the Cayce to Columbua turn Y102. CSXT 2214 is the road slug. It was built as Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO) GP35 3529 in 1964. Ir has sin... (more)