New Paint on an Old Line. A freshly-pained Geep heads onto the NIT, a once busy but now sparsely used local industry track, to deliver cars to a metals facility.

Coal Train. Bound for Dominion Energy's Wateree Generating Station, this NS coal train--unusually as of late--comes through in good afternoon light.

Just Passing Through. Led by a BNSF unit far from its home rails, the dally container/manifest train trom Atlanta meets NS 243 at Assembly Street in Columbia that is waiting to depart tor ... (more)

Accordion. A loaded coal train bound for Santee Cooper's Cross Generating Facility runs over the undulating tracks next to Asssembly Street in Columbia, SC.

Norfolk Southern Train 156 passes the former Union Station in Columbia, South Carolina with NS SD60 #6610 leading. In it's heyday, Union Station saw both Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast Line t... (more)

If Pigs Could Run Over the River. Because of a reroute due to a derailment near Macon, a container train passes over the Congaree River heading south toward Augusta on the Southern's R Lin... (more)

A CSX local crew is on the New Industrial Track in Columbia, South Carolina in 2012. CSXT 6416 is a GP40-2 locomotive built in 1978 for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad as CO 6177.

Bringing up the Rear. C740 crosses over the Columbia Canal as it passes through town on its way to the Wateree Generating Station.

Preparing for Colder Temps. C740 arrives into Columbia with a load of coal and crosses over the decidedly less angry Broad River that is nevertheless still carrying a lot of runoff from No... (more)

Close Call. On its way into Columbia on the Eastover Sub, a car decides that it doesn't want to wait and risk C319 blocking the crossing for awhile.

NS 18D at the Columbia Amtrak Station

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)

Morning Work. The all-but-Sunday local P75 approaches Devine Junction as it departs south on the Southern's R Line for work around Monetta.

Entering through the Ditch. S999 brings a turbine through the Ditch in Columbia on its way for a crew change at Cayce Yard.

On 8.13.2024, CSX local Y102 had GP40-3 rebuilld 6582 leading a GP38-2. Provided the information I found online is correct, she was built in 1980 as Louisville & Nashville (LN) GP40-2 6603, then ... (more)