Rockton & Rion 2-8-2 No. 19 has just brought cars to interchange with Southern as its Local with RS-3 2052 arrives at Rockton, South Carolina on April 12, 1963. Southern's local has 25 loads of S... (more)

An extra out of Andrews Yard in Columbia works on the line that once ran all the way to Hardeeville and was part of Southern's route to Florida via ACL trackage rights. The line to Augusta is just... (more)

This Summer 1975 scene finds a westbound local on the Murphy Branch west of Andrews behind a pair of high hood GPs.

Somewhere between Society Hill and Cheraw (yeah, the boonies). Note the homemade end walks.

I had just moved from CA back east was a thrilled to be only 4 hours from the farm. The days were crisp and the reddish sun angle enriched the colors as this daily freight prepared to depart for ... (more)

'Original" NS trains 63 and 64 are seen here meeting at Star, NC in this summer 1973 view. The outbound crew of train #63 is boarding for the run to Charlotte while the caboose of train #64 is vis... (more)

Becker Sand and Gravel never made much effort to pretty up their locomotives or to straighten bent stuff or to replace worn out wheels or much of anything. Here is a prime example of a gravel pit... (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)

Looking much better than her last photo op for RP (seen here: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=97281), ARC #3 sits in the parking lot of a lumber yard in Statesville. The "mainline" of... (more)

Using an ex-Lancaster & Chester unit, the Circle S Feed Mill crew clears a path for L&C Job 14 which is waiting on the main with 40 cars of corn. Once the cars are dropped, the Circle S crew will... (more)

The 12.13 mile Graham County Railroad operated between Topton and Robbinsville from the wye at Junction, the interchange with the Southern Railroad’s Murphy freight only branch. Graham County Sh... (more)

There's not too much going on in Bunyan NC other than screen doors flapping in the breeze and the soft burbling of a 567 as the CLNA rolls by northbound with 11 cars shortly after departing Washin... (more)

"Original" Norfolk Southern #1609 working at Raleigh, NC in September 1955. Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.

#190 pulls the "wild west train"

Train #63 west of Mt. Gilead, NC || August 1972