Norfolk Southern 3280 brings local train P75 through Devine Junction in Columbia, South Carolina to work industry along the former Southern Railway R Line. NS 3280 is an EMD SD40-2 built for South... (more)

Vintage GP9s lay over one day in Miley, South Carolina. By this point, there was one customer on line, a coal fired pwoer plant in Cassady. When that plant laid off coal in 2012 (and then eventual... (more)

CSXT 940 is on the end of a loaded coal train through Slighs, South Carolina in April 2011.

A CSX crew is onboard leased power at Cayce, South Carolina in this 2011 photograph. They would shove back maybe a hundred feet to pick up a cut of cars for delivery.

HLCX (Helms Leasin... (more)

Sometimes foreign power really is foreign. Such was the case on an early Spring morning when FEX 4619 lead Norfolk Southern 192 into Columbia.

Crew on board Lancaster and Chester RR GP38-2 #3821 works the area between Old Richburg Road and SC Hwy. 9 on April 22, 2019. L&C 3821 was one of the first two road switchers the railroad bought. ... (more)

L&C SW900 #90 brings a single car of lumber bound for Builders Supply as it approaches West Manor Road in Lancaster.

ACWR passenger excursion passes parked CSX power near Pinehurst, NC. Also fire hydrant.

A CSX local treads slowly on the industrial track that cuts off from the main on Assembly Street. The train is approaching Olympia Ave. in this shot. When I was living in Columbia and shooting reg... (more)

On November 29, 2010, Union Pacific SD9043MAC 8127 leads a Norfolk Southern Railway wood chip train past the Amtrak station in Columbia, South Carolina. 8127 was built in 1997.

A CSX local train between Cayce, South Carolina and Sumter is seen here running through Columbia with GECX SD40-T2 8649 leading. The locomotive was built in 1978 for the St. Louis Southwestern as ... (more)

CSX Q463 is just a few hundred yards from its terminating yard in Cayce, SC as it crosses the Congaree River that separates Richland and Lexington counties in South Carolina.

Lancaster and Chester Train 16 works the industries on the wye track that connects to CSX Transportation. Here, they are shoving across Beltline Road because Train 12 is about to come in from behi... (more)

CSX Cayce to Sumter turn in South Carolina passes through Columbia on the Eastover Sub. SCX 2272 is a former GP30 (now a road slug) built in 1962 for the Baltimore & Ohio as BO 6971.

CSX 5972 was one of two motors as the crew of CSX Y102 is on a spur off of the Eastover Sub in Columbia, South Carolina. The old GE has an unusual ancestry. Built as Conrail #5079, it went to Norf... (more)