The Pickens Belton Job crosses the Rocky River as they leave Anderson,SC on their way to Belton

CSX Q463 is just a few hundred yards from its terminating yard in Cayce, SC as it crosses the Congaree River that separates Richland and Lexington counties in South Carolina.

Big Creek. After picking up a cut of cars in Pelzer, the GRLW heads through Williamston to get to Belton and interchange with the Pickens Railroad. Here, it passes over Big Creek near Spri... (more)

Bridge. This mostly pig container train with a boxcar heads over the Saluda River on its way north on the old Southern Main. Here, the train approaches Greenville, SC.

Two Kansas City Southern locomotives helped power an Augusta, Georgia-bound ethanol train over Harden Street in Columbia, SC on Labor Day Weekend back in 2015. We don't see a lot of KCS leaders ar... (more)

Early one morning in May 2004, CSX Q464 passes over Park Street in Columbia, South Carolina with Union Pacific 6338 leading a BNSF motor. UP 6338 was built for Southern Pacific as SP 272 in June 1... (more)

Local Work Today. Led by these old Geeps converted to a slug set, the daily local heads out from Cayce Yard across the old Seaboard Air Line bridge over the Congaree River.

Greenville & Western GP9 #3752 crosses Gossett Drive in Williamston,SC on its way south to Belton to interchange with the Pickens.

Let’s Go, We’re Late! Led by the most power I’ve ever seen on an Amtrak passenger train and running about four hours late, a very long northbound Silver Star, mixed with The Silver M... (more)

Last PSR Pig of the Year. A very long train of pigs and mixed freight pulls through Columbia, SC on the way to Charleston, SC. The former Richland/Whaley Mill, now student apartments, sits... (more)

Q693 heads south over Lake Greenwood on the Spartanburg Sub with 118 cars for Greenwood, Augusta, and Waycross.

The third of three cuts of a CSX soybean train is heading for Kershaw, crossing the Catawba River at the site that was formerly the Springs Industries Grace Complex.

The Central of New Jersey heritage unit leads northbound intermodal train 204 across Cherokee Creek in Gaffney, SC on a nice sunny day.

NS 191 heads south as it leaves Columbia, SC down the Southern's "R" line. Here it is captured crossing over the Congaree river just before sunset

Congaree Views. This mixed freight, which originates in Columbia, is running over the Southern's old R Line bridge over the Congaree River as the sun is beginning to set. In the background... (more)