The eastbound Belton job crosses Broadway Creek at a leisurely pace.

The Belton job has just made interchange with the Greenville and Western and rumbles southward to work a customer on the former Southern Railway/Columbia and Greenville line.

The Pickens Anderson approaches Belton.

The Pickens Anderson approaches Belton.

The Pickens Anderson job heads east with 6 cars for the Greenville and Western, passing a quarry about half way through its route.

The Anderson job sits on top of one of the many humps on the roller coaster track on line to Gluck.

The Belton Job winds it's way around a tight S Curve outside of Anderson as it crawls back toward Belton on a dreary winter day. The paint adds a nice splash of color to the dark scene.

Pickens U18B No. 9503 bellows smoke after being fired up at the beginning of a wet, dreary day of work for the Belton Job.

Leaving the Norfolk Southern interchange in Anderson, the Pickens Belton Job ducks under a bridge wedged between old buildings in downtown beginning its trip back to Belton where the job's day be... (more)

Too much traffic for the infrastructure is a good problem to have. The Anderson Job with ex-CSX B40-8s has left their 40+ car train clear of crossing and pulled up to the NS interchange to confer... (more)

After picking up 2 loaded scrap gons from new customer CMC Recycling, the Belton Job gets back underway to Honea Path.

Cutting through a lingering mist on a dreary December afternoon in rural Upstate South Carolina, Pickens Railway's Belton job navigates a well defined S-curve outside of Belton, nearing its next ... (more)

Done with the day's work, two of the Pickens' 'Baby Boat' head back for the yard in Gluck. I feel lucky to have caught these on the Gluck Job as they are starting to be replaced by ex CSX B40-2's.... (more)

Using a pair of nodescript de-rated CSX B40-8s, the Pickens Anderson Job pulls 14 empties from Michelin U.S. 8 Plant, which produces semi-finished rubber for US tire plants, including 2 located in... (more)

A bull grazes in a large field outside of Belton as the Pickens Railroad's Belton Job trots its way toward the Greenville & Western interchange with a single tanker in tow.