Two veteran high hood locomotives sit at Grand Junction at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga. Former Southern Railway GP30 #2594 is nearest us. She was built in 1963. In 1982, sh... (more)

Unfortunately, due to the time the train came through and the direction it was heading, this was the only decent place to shoot the circus train in Columbia. And, of course, none of the circus tra... (more)

There's always that one guy. I am standing in a photo line of about twenty people. And then there is this guy... Meanwhile, the 630 is shoving back to the NC Transportation Museum after the last o... (more)

A man waits for a train at Grand Junction at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga.

Larry's Truck & Electric SW1500 1543 sits in Aiken, South Carolina. She was start up power on the Aiken Railway while their two GP30s were being readied for delivery on their sister shortline, the... (more)

RailServe GP7 #4493 at the NS Columbia, SC Yard on January 8, 2014. This unit had previously been at the International Paper in Eastover, South Carolina.

A Norfolk Southern crew has brought a transfer train out of Andrews Yard in Columbia and dropped it on the south end f CSX's Cayce Yard. Now they will get their train from the north end of the yar... (more)

A duo of EMD SD40-2s back a train into the CSX Yard in Cayce, SC. The train has brought a cut of cars from the nearby Norfolk Southern uard in Columbia.

Norfolk Southern wood chip train approaches Lady Street in Columbia, South Carolina in 2008. This train used to run up the Saluda Grade before that line was closed. But now the plant that made the... (more)

A spartan cab Dash 9 crosses Sumter Street in Columbia, SC in 2013.

Back in 2012, I caught the CSX daily Cayce to Hamlet, North Carolina train on the former Seaboard Air Line Railway. In this sot, the train is crossing Tryon Street in Columbia about to get on the ... (more)

The CSX daily Cayce to Hamlet, North Carolina train is on the former Seaboard Air Line Railway traveling northbound over Park Street in Columbia via a bridge built in the 1980s.

A Norfolk Southern crew delivers the first six axle power for the Lancaster and Chester in May of 2016.

Originally Southern Pacific 8257 (built 5/1980) future LC 6002 then became Union ... (more)

I made this photograph of the Sumter, South Carolina CSX railroad yard in September 2012, just four months after CSX ES44AC #3035 was built. Meanwhile, a second crew is on board CSX #7541 prepared... (more)

Norfolk Southern local P77 trudges slowly through the fog in Cayce, SC enroute to Edmunds. The train is led by Norfolk Southern (NS) 5575. It was built by EMD in 1971 as Norfolk & Western (NW) 414... (more)