That time I caught CSX Railroad working CMC Steel in Cayce, South Carolina. The crew from CMC normally works the CSX yard themselves. but CSX often delivered or picked up cars from CMC. such was t... (more)

A CSX crew gets a train ready to leave the yard. I presume this is Y102.

CMC Steel crew on a repowered Alco S2 brings a cut of cars out of the Cayce, SC facility in 2011. Johnson Railway 132 was built as Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac (RFP) 58. It then became St... (more)

A pair of ex Burlington Northern SD60Ms brings NS 156 in to Cayce, heading for Columbia for their crew change and eventually Linwood, NC.

CSX F784 crossing the Congaree River as it heads into Cayce Yard

A CMC Steel crew is in a Johnson Railway Alco in Cayce, South Carolina pulling a few gondolas of the steel plant in 2013. This is a repowered America Locomotive Company (Alco) S2 originally built ... (more)

CSX Q211 crossing the Congaree River

NS P75 crossing the Congaree River

Norfolk Southern's Virginian heritage unit is in charge of local train P75, a freight out of Columbia, South Carolina that goes down the R Line to Monetta, SC.

Former Louisville & Nashville 4106, now CSX 2614, leads a local train through some switching moves in Cayce, South Carolina alongside CSX 361. Built in 1973, she is seen here wearing the mosy rece... (more)

Getting Underway. Led by an NS Dash 9, which once wandered the countryside in mighty herds but now is nearly extinct, this CSX special movement pulls a Siemens generator out of Cayce yard ... (more)

I looked to see who owned it first but the screen said "Server to busy". At least someone is working.

"Monstrosity" might be a better model name for this beast. Perhaps "Horrible Heffalump" There were lots of old E unit prime movers around in those days and the guys at Waycro... (more)

A two-step "waist" ahead of the cab marks this unit as an early version of the NW2. Note the trucks. SCL was an early adopter of roller bearings.

On October 24, 2023, power for CSX Y102 sits in CSX's Cayce, South Carolina yard before heading out for a day's work.

CSXT 4427 was built by EMD as Conrail (CR) GP40-2 3343 in 1978. ... (more)