It's the day after Christmas 2014 and the crew of NS P77 is back at work along Dunbar Road in West Columbia, South Carolina. The engineer is currently shoving a box car over Old Dimbar Rd. onto a ... (more)

Almost Done. The every-day-but-Sunday P77 returns from its work on the old Southern C-Line toward Andrews Yard.

Southbound Through the Junction. The daily local P77 returns from the once-fulsome C Line that now runs only a few miles outside of Columbia to work a sand mine at Edmund.

Norfolk Southern local train P77 crosses the CSX diamond with a short train heading back to Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina in 2014 under ann angry sky.

Foggy Conditions. The local P77 returns to Andrews Yard amidst some fairly heavy fog.

Norfolk Southern local P77 trudges slowly through the fog in Cayce, SC enroute to Edmunds. The train is led by Norfolk Southern (NS) 5575. It was built by EMD in 1971 as Norfolk & Western (NW) 414... (more)

If I had known this would be the last time I would see either of these motors, I would have chased this train longer than I did. P77 is a local turn out of Columbia to Edmund. In Cayce, they will ... (more)

If I had known this would be the last time I would see either of these motors, I would have chased tis train longer than I did. What I could not know is that I was ten days away from a six month s... (more)

A couple of veteran former Southern Railway High Hood GP38-2s lead NS local train P77 back into Columbia, SC over the Whaley Street Bridge. NS 5043 was an EMD GP38-2 built for the Southern Railway... (more)

NS P77 is on what is left of the old C Line in Cayce, South Carolina heading to work industry near Dunbar Road and the airport in Columbia.

NS P77 prepares to work the spur in the foreground in late December of 2014. Some folks may still be celebrating the Christmas holiday, but for these railroaders it is back to business as usual.

High Hood Short Hood Forward. This remnant Southern Geep has been in Columbia for awhile occasionally running a daily local in town, but I haven't had a chance to catch it--until this day.... (more)

East Past the Signal. The daily C-Line local returns to Andrews Yard with the USC Fraternity and Sorority Quad in the background. P77 passes an old Seaboard single-aspect searchlight signa... (more)

One of the final 59 NS GP38-2 to sport a high hood leads NS P77 through Cayce, SC.

NS P77, the Columbia to Edmonds turn, creeps back into Columbia, SC over the diamond with CSX.