L&C Santa train passes over the Kershaw-Camden Highway in 2012 with the Clinchfield Railroad 100 directly behind the 3820.

Lancaster & Chester train 16 pulling away from the NS Interchange in Chester with grain loads for Circle S

On a very rainy St. Patrick's Day 2014, crews of two Lanaster and Chester trains have combined to bring a cut of cars on the wye track that leads to the "new" CSX interchange that was bu... (more)

Lancaster and Chester crew works the industries on the East Chester trackage on a gorgeous autumn day in 2013. She was built in 1966 as Detroit Toledo & Ironton (DTI) 201


to Grand... (more)

Lancaster and Chester Railway Santa Train was southbound on the old Southern Railway SB Line in 2021. Most of the time when I shot the L&C Santa Train, the weather was gloomy. 2012 was one of the ... (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)

L&C Train 12 leaves East Chester in late 2016 after interchanging with LC 16 at the wye. I tried to not include my shadow in the shot, but I was having mobility issues back then and could not vent... (more)

A Lancaster and Chester grain train is caught in East Chester pulling the second half of a cut of cars to the Circle S Feed Mill near Richburg. LC 3820 is now Mississippi Export Railroad (MSE) 70.

L&C GP38AC pulls to a stop beside the former Southern Railway depot in Heath Springs, South Carolina to spot some empties from Plains, LLC on a siding.

Lancaster and Chester crew accesses the Circle S Feed Mill spur as they prepare to meet L&C Train 14 from Lancaster. L&C 3820 was built for the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad #201 in 1966. L&C... (more)

L&C 3820 was built in 1966 as Detroit, Toledo & Ironton #201. After that, it was Grand Trunk Western #6201 and later Grand Trunk Western #4995. It then became RTEX #4995 where they refurbished it ... (more)

L&C Train 14 crosses Main Street in Lancaster with a sign proclaiming "We Are Lancaster" which was a rallying cry for my hometown during the time this photograph was made. This locomotive was latr... (more)

Crews from Lancaster and Chester and Norfolk Southern meet at Hinton Street in Chester to interchange cars to the left of frame

Off the L&C Mainline in Richburg is a small branch that serves a single industry. The crew will unhook 1 engine from the main train and send it carefully down that spur. Because of the layout, t... (more)