Railfanning in the Hub City
Author: Moss Miller
Photos in and around Spartanburg, SC.
Photo Gallery
CSX 8517 in the yard.
Three GEVOs, elephant style leading a empty hopper train out the tunnel.
CSX 9024 is the only loco in the Beaumont Yard today.
CSX 308 in the yard.
CSX mixed freight in the siding at Roebuck.
Another shot of some rare visitors.
A rare set of F units in New Haven paint sat in CSX and NS's interchange yard in Spartanburg for a week awaiting a trip to the Greenville area to be repainted in Santa Fe colors to be displayed at the Galveston Railroad Museum.
A brand new NS SD70ace leads a mixed freight past Magnolia. This was my first sighting of an NS SD70ace.
Intermodal at Magnolia.
CSX 817 leads an empty hopper train back into the Beaumont Yard.
CSX 270 in CSX's Beaumont Yard.
NCYR 2313 sits in the interchange at Spartanburg after working on the GRLW. It is waiting to be taken back to NC.
Mixed freight coming off of the Belton Sub and onto the Spartanburg Sub at the Main St. grade crossing.
CSX's Beaumont Yard
CSX power in the ex-Clinchfield Beaumont Yard.
An ethanol train bound for the GRLW heads under the C&WC bridge on the wye at Spartanburg.
NS 3315 leads P74 back to Hayne.
NS P74 heading towards Gaffney.
The lead unit of an ethanol train bound for the GRLW crossing over the CSX bridge that leads to the Beaumont Yard. Wofford College is located right across from where this photo was taken.
CSX 674 in front of the yard office.
Three geeps leads the local rouster job back to Hayne.
A slug set in the Beaumont Yard.
CSX train Q698-23 clears the north end of Roebuck.
NS P42 heading back to Hayne.
CSX Q698-25 heads for the Spartanburg Sub on the Henry and Evins St. Lead.
NS 154 out of Birmingham made a stop at C.P. Magnolia after switching Hayne Yard to wait on NS 119. For a day or so, rumor had it that 8114 would be third out on 154, but I really didn't think that it would really come through the Upstate. But... as I came around the side of the depot at Spartanburg, I saw red and knew that she WAS on 154. Here is a roster shot taken down at the end of the fence at Magnolia.
NS 154 at Magnolia with the original NS heritage unit third out. 154 was waiting on 119.
NS 213 racing past Magnolia on track one with an EMD leader.
NS 213 races by the new "W" Line signal at Beaumont on a beautiful fall afternoon.
Shortly following 213 is P86 coming off the "W" Line.
NS 213 at Magnolia with a long stack train in tow.
NS 212, with the UP SP unit up front, races past Magnolia.
NS 212 with the UP SP heritage unit up front.
NS 213 flies past Magnolia with a long stack train in tow.
NS 213 races past the new signals at Beaumont on the last day of 2012, ending my best year railfanning yet, which included seeing Southern 630 and a couple of heritage units.
NS P86 flies past a stopped NS 154 at Magnolia after an unusually long day of switching on the "W" line. Notice the font difference on the number board of 3235.
NS 213, on track two, races past local P86, on track one, at Magnolia in blinding rain.
NS P42 chugs past Beaumont Junction, led by a high hood geep, long hood forward.
Spare power in the locomotive track at CSX's Beaumont Yard.
CSX 8576 glistens in the late afternoon sunlight in CSX's Beaumont Yard.
NS 213 races past Magnolia with a nice leader.
A new train to my area, CSX Q696 (Russell, KY to Hamlet, NC) slowly makes its way past the old ACL depot in Spartanburg.
CSX 308, my second spotting of this unit in less than a year in the same yard, awaits is next assignment.
CSX coal train U303 slowly makes its way past the old ACL depot on the last day of winter 2013.
CSX coal train U303 makes its way past the Southern depot heading south.
NS 119 passes the soon to be replaced signals at Magnolia to wait on 290 at Hayne Junction.
NS 204 races past Beaumont and an unafraid Mockingbird.
Two GE locos idle in CSX's Beaumont Yard awaiting their next assignment. Notice how good the YN2 paint on #439 looks!
NS 119 breaks the stillness of the small southern town of Spartanburg on its way to its final destination, Greenville, SC.
The Hub City Railroad Museum caboose with a new deck!