Just outside CSXT's Cayce Yard sits the small storage area for Commercial Metals. The facility is serviced by 2 industry switchers at any given time. With their primary power down because of an ... (more)

A beautiful pair of KCS engines leads the Q211 autorack train across the river and into Cayce Yard as they end their journey for the day.

Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina, was in the center of the path of totality for the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. NS 7697, a GE ES40DC, was in between assignm... (more)

The sun is coming up over Columbia as the daily autorack train is waiting for a signal at Elmwood Junction. It is sitting just before a MOW crane that has been working various parts of the Columb... (more)

One of the rarely photographed locomotives in the Columbia area rests in the former American Italian Pasta Company Plant. It switches various cars for the plant and has done so since roughly 2005.... (more)

After starting out the day in Laurens, SC and running down the CN&L Sub, CSXT W999's turbine load is about to pull into Cayce Yard as it crosses over the Congaree River. As luck would have it, th... (more)

With the next batch of high hoods slated for auction in mid-August, we continue to be fortunate enough to have these classic engines in Columbia. While they swap cars around the yard a majority of... (more)

Running the Ditch. Bearing its load of mostly autoracks, Q211 heads through the Ditch--constructed in the late 1980s to eliminate traffic congestion and allow for City expansion--through Co... (more)

With the next batch of high hoods slated for auction in mid-August, we continue to be fortunate enough to have these classic engines in Columbia. While they swap cars around the yard a majority o... (more)

The twice weekly local out of Cayce Yard has made it's way across the river and over to Columbia as it comes out of Devine Junction heading toward Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard.