Looking like a model train in the wrong scale, 3' gauge Palmetto Brick #2 pulls her 8-car train across the line's only grade crossing in Wallace, SC, on October 17, 2008. This line has since ceas... (more)

Link and pin couplers in 2008! Palmetto Brick's 3' gauge operation in Wallace, South Carolina, still features these "old school" couplers, even though the equipment is now roller bearing equipped... (more)

The first railroads were point-to-point systems for hauling quarried material. South Carolina's Palmetto Brick Company was still such a railroad in 2008 - and 36" gauge with link and pin couplers... (more)

Palmetto Brick Company #1 is a 36" gauge Plymouth 10-tonner built in 1939. It and a sister Plymouth (#2) pull and push eight car trains of clay at the company's Wallace, South Carolina, plant. T... (more)