A reverse coal train moves through downtown Columbia, South Carolina, seen here passing the Amtrak staation. I call it a reverse coal train because most loaded trains move southward through South ... (more)

An ex-Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD40-2 is on point of a train sitting in the CSX yard in Cayce, South Carolina. HLCX #8081 was built in 1979 as Burlington Northern, same number. The unit was so... (more)

A former Conrail SD50 leads NS 337 out of the Rock Hill yard in South Carolina.

A Norfolk Southern GP50 has just brought the Rock Hill to Charlotte local back to the yard in Rock Hill. In this shot, the crew is putting their train in the yard.

Four EMD SD40-2s, including the HLCX motor smoking it up four units back, bring a grain train up Aberdeen Hill in 2005. There is an Aberdeen, Carolina & Western crew onboard the train and it has b... (more)

Three trains are at the yard in Monroe, North Carolina dn two of them are moving! To make the shot more memorable to me is that I literally pulled up ten seconds before the road freight passed me!... (more)

About a year before their original line was abandoned, I found Pickens GE U18B #9502 siting at the old Pickens, SC Chattahoochee Locomotive Company shop along with JWRX GP10 #8383 (former South Ca... (more)

GSMR 1751 pulls an excursion just outside of Dillsboro, NC in late 2014.

Great Smoky Mountains Railroad GP9s 777 and 1751 have just left Bryson City, NC on the Tuckasegee River train beside a random abandoned boat. The train is going to Dillsboro.

South Carolina Cental Railroad crosses a very rural road just outside Hartsville on the trip to Bishopville. Former Canadian National GP40-2L #9490 is on point wearing RMPX reporting marks. Those ... (more)

A six pack of motors on the head end of a train passing through Cayce, SC. The lead engine is Norfolk Southern 8674, a GE C39-8E built in 1987.

Former Southern Pacific GP60 #9752 found itself a long, long way from home in this 2004 photograph I made in Catawba, South Carolina. She was being used by CSX at the former Bowater plant in York ... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 is seen here putting their train together for the return run to the Norfolk Southern interchange in Chester. They will also stop at the wye in East Chester to exchan... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 brings a short cut of cars through Richburg as it retraces its steps back to the rest of the train left on a siding. The crew will add these cars to those cars and t... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Train 12 is on a siding in Richburg to pick up the hoppers in the background. She was built in 1993 as Conrail 5567. Gulf & Ohio Railways bought more than a few of these six ... (more)