NS 50Z is a grain train for Monetta, SC. Here, we see the MGA Heritage unit lead the NS unit and the 1030 through a curve in Richland, SC. These three units are fresh off the Heritage Event at the... (more)

A very short freight train passes the Aspyre apartment building in Columbia, South Carolina with CSX 2212 on lead. It was built by EMD in 1964 as Baltimore & Ohio Railroad GP35 3551. When CSX took... (more)

A Johnson Railway Services NW2 sits at the Murphy-Brown Grain Mill in Laurinburg, North Carolina. The little switcher was built in 1948 as Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DTI) 915. She later... (more)

CSXT SD50 8645 lads a work train railroad south on the Hamlet, NC to Atlanta mainline in Springs 2006 with SD 4617 leading, one of the last locomotives in an ancestor scheme at the time I made the... (more)

An old timer gets his shot of a fellow older timer, former Southern Railway 6133 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC.

Southern Railway 6133 was built by EMD in 19... (more)

Union Pacific power is on point of a CSX train about to leave the old Seaboard yard in Monroe, NV back iin 2004. Run through power was common back then on the CSX line between Atlanta and Hamlet. ... (more)

A two train meet takes place on the L&C as LC 12 waits n the west end if the Circle S Feed Mill for LC 14 to pass. 14 is bound for Lancaster while 12 will go to Richburg to pick up the rest of her... (more)

I shot the Lancaster and Chester crossing Main Street in Richburg, SC with a grain train bound for Circle S Feed Mill in 2014. They are using six GP38-2 locomotives led by L&C GP38AC #3820 which h... (more)

The engine is a former Santa Fe GP7u, ATSF #2027. She became SCRF in a classy dark blue scheme with the outline of the Palmetto State as a logo. She had been painted during RailTex ownership of th... (more)

On 12/20/2010, vintage South Carolina Central power takes a cut of cars into Hartsville on 12/20/2010. I'm at a grade crossing, but for most of this railroad's existence, I would have been in the ... (more)

An empty coal train passes a parked work train in Irmo, South Carolina on the former Columbia, Newberry & Laurens line. CSX #6462 was built in 1980 as Louisville & Nashville GP40-2 #6600.

I was a bit surprised by this somewhat unusual engine lash-up in the CSX yard back in 2011 of a GE AC6000CW and EMD GP38-2, though the smaller unit may not have been online.

CSX crew breaks up Train Q211 in the aftermath of a typically light Carolina snow on board CSXT 7303 which started life in 1990 as COnrail 6055. CSX sold it after this shot and is became GECX 7303... (more)

Norfolk Southern 156 passes through Cayce, South Carolina on its way to Linwood Yard in North Carolina.

Norfolk Southern 8908 leads NS P75 over the Charleston Highway in Lexington county South Carolina im February 2013. NS 8908 was built in 1996 as a General Electric C40-9W. She was rebuilt in 2018 ... (more)