In October 2004, the Pee Dee River Railway passes the old freight depot in Tatum, South Carolina. PDRR 1842 is a EMD GP16 built in 1952 as SAL GP7 1795. She remains in service on the shortline rai... (more)

A crew aboard CSXT 1159 is building a short train for the Columbia Job in Cayce Yard in 2015. It was built as Seaboard Coast Line 4099 in 1977, to Seaboard System, same number and then CSXT 1159. ... (more)

A two unit South Carolina Central unit train in Bishopville, South Carolina in their pre-Genesee & Wyoming days.

On July 7, 2014, my son and I caught the Pickens Railway Belton Job enroute to the other end of the line in Gluck to interchange cars with the Anderson Job using two classic GE U18Bs built for Sea... (more)

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)

In March 2008, former Pickens Railway AlcoS2M 6 sits at their graveyard un Docheno, South Carolina in Anderson County. The PICK 6 was scrapped not long after this photograph was made.

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)

Foreign power leads a Norfolk Southern wood chip train past the Amtrak platform in Columbia, South Carolina in 2010. Until these trains were annulled, they were always a favorite of mine to catch ... (more)

Pickens U18B 9501 sits in Docheno, South Carolina in 2008. The railroad took delivery of eight former CSX U18Bs to run their rail lines in Anderson, South Carolina. This one was used as a parts so... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Railway SW1200 94 and a train sit out the night at the ADM in Kershaw, South Carolina. She was built for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1957 as PRR 7917, then became a Penn Cen... (more)

Pickens Railway Belton Job comes leaves downtown Anderson in April 2014. PICK 9508 is a General Electric U18B built for the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad in 1973 as SCL 334. With the f... (more)

A Pickens Railway crew works the Norfolk Southern interchange in downtown Anderson in March 2023 with two GE U18Bs long hood forward. Once they are finished here, they will return to Gluck with th... (more)

Pickens Railroad Belton Job has made the trek all the way to the end of the line in Gluck to interchange with the Anderson Job. It's a rare move as they normally meet in downtown Anderson. But on ... (more)

Pickens Railway Blton John has come all the way to Gluck to interchange cars with the Anderson Job in July 2014.