Round Two: After bringing in the first set of gons (seen in the background already staged with other cars from other PICK customers), the Anderson Job arrives into the downtown interchange ... (more)

After making a second rare mileage trip down the old Orr Mill Connection to pick up the rest of the stored scrap metal gons, the Anderson Job pulls into the interchange to drop off this last strin... (more)

Long before the U18B era on Pickens, they had a motley, but interesting mix of switchers, including this very early EMD.

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

Pickens S2 runs light back to Gluck after delivering a car.

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)

The Pickens Belton job rolls through a rural road crossing with one car headed for Belton.

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 finishing its switching in Gluck, the Pickens Gluck job heads north to interchange with NS and the Pickens Belton Jobs. The track seems to have been layed directly on the ground, with the pr... (more)

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

With an equal ratio of cars and power, the Pickens Belton job heads through some open country on its way toward Belton where it will drop the one hopper at the Greenville & Western interchange bef... (more)

...And this is where it all started! Before I could even drive, I'd ride my grandpa mower down to this crossing and see the PICK crew pass by every time I went to my grandparents house. Yea... (more)

Westbound Pickens RR train at Pickens, SC || November 1970