The rear end of a loaded coal train passes over Assembly Street in Columbia, South Caolina back 2009. CSX #703 is a General Electric ES44AC-H built in 2007. It is an DPU in this shot which stands ... (more)

In 2018, I caught a two train meet in Richburg on the Lancaster and Chester. They not only met, but also combined their power to bring the rest of LC 12 up Richburg Hill.

Lancaster an... (more)

CSXT AC4400CW 338 is smoking it up on the head end of a freight train on the south end of Cayce Yard in South Carolina. The train is the daily freight between yards in Hamlet, North Carolina and C... (more)

I had not been long moved to Columbia when I caught this spartan cab Dash 9 crossing Highway 321 in Lexington County via a bridge. The train is probaby NS 191 and it was led by NS 8839. This locom... (more)

One half of the fleet for the then still-new Aiken Railway sits at the small office for the railroad in it's namesake town in 2013.

This locomotive was buit as Atchison Topeka & Santa... (more)

CSX Q494 passes the Village at Sandhill in northeast Columbia, South Carolina on it's then-daily trip from Cayce to Hamlet, NC and back.

In late 2008, a Lancaster and Chester Railway crew works the GerdauAmeristeel on the former Southern Railway SB line. The plant makes rail spikes and ships out up to ten cars a week. L&C SW900 90 ... (more)

The South Carolina Railroad Museum in 2005 dug this old American Locomotive Company (Alco) crane out of the woods on part of the unused portion of their tracks back in 2005. She now sits on displa... (more)

Norfolk Southern 4139 leads an intermodal train int Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina in Jauary 2020. From the fact he is off the main line, I suspect there was a meet here with a northboun... (more)

CSX 7307 crew prepares to make some switching moves at Cayce, South Carolina with an ex-Conrail wide cab on lead. It was built in 1990 as CR C40-8 6067.

In March 2009, I hoped to catch the Lancaster and Chester using their newly repainted switch engine that was now wearing a paint scheme much like SW900s 90 and 91 had been delivered in back in 196... (more)

Pickens Anderson Job is seen here waiting at the interchange with Norfolk Southern for the Belton Hob to come into town. Picken 9500 is a rare GE U18B buit in 1974 for Seaboard Coast Line as SCL 3... (more)

Former Conrail GP38-2 8235 on her new home for 20 years now was on LC 16 when I caught her in action back in September of 2000. After Conrail, she was NS 5368. Norfolk Southern sold her to Helms L... (more)

After interchanging with the Pickens at Belton the Greenville and Western heads back towards Greenville with a short train in tow.

Pickens Railroad 9507 lays over the weekend at a spot on the map called Docheno in Anderson, South Carolina. She was built by GE in 1974 as Seaboard Coast Line #351, to Seaboard System #1949. CSX ... (more)