Carolina Southern (CALA) 2613 - EMD GP30

My late Dad (RCJ I) and I (RLJ II) did an eastern trip for Spring Break 2001. We stayed at a motel in Myrtle Breach. Somehow missed the arrival of the Carolina Southern Railway. I walked to their tracks to capture the only Carolina Southern locomotives I have ever seen! Now they are long gone. Wish I would have seen them working! Cool High Hood GP30 still in Southern Railway colors amazingly around 20 years gone!!!!! Date approx. (Canon 35mm S.L.R. camera, Kodak Gold 100 print film)

My late Dad (RCJ I) and I (RLJ II) did an eastern trip for Spring Break 2001. We stayed at a motel in Myrtle Breach. Somehow missed the arrival of the Carolina Southern Railway. I walked to their tracks to capture the only Carolina Southern locomotives I have ever seen! Now they are long gone. Wish I would have seen them working! Cool High Hood GP30 still in Southern Railway colors amazingly around 20 years gone!!!!! Date approx. (Canon 35mm S.L.R. camera, Kodak Gold 100 print film)

My late Dad (RCJ I) and I (RLJ II) did an eastern trip for Spring Break 2001. We stayed at a motel in Myrtle Breach. Somehow missed the arrival of the Carolina Southern Railway. I walked to their tracks to capture the only Carolina Southern locomotives I have ever seen! Now they are long gone. Wish I would have seen them working! Cool High Hood GP30 still in Southern Railway colors amazingly around 20 years gone!!!!! Date approx. (Canon 35mm S.L.R. camera, Kodak Gold 100 print film)

My late Dad (RCJ I) and I (RLJ II) did an eastern trip for Spring Break 2001. We stayed at a motel in Myrtle Breach. Somehow missed the arrival of the Carolina Southern Railway. I walked to their tracks to capture the only Carolina Southern locomotives I have ever seen! Now they are long gone. Wish I would have seen them working! Cool High Hood GP30 still in Southern Railway colors amazingly around 20 years gone!!!!! Date approx. (Canon 35mm S.L.R. camera, Kodak Gold 100 print film)

My late Dad (RCJ I) and I (RLJ II) did an eastern trip for Spring Break 2001. We stayed at a motel in Myrtle Breach. Somehow missed the arrival of the Carolina Southern Railway. I walked to their tracks to capture the only Carolina Southern locomotives I have ever seen! Now they are long gone. Wish I would have seen them working! Cool High Hood GP30 still in Southern Railway colors amazingly around 20 years gone!!!!! Date approx. (Canon 35mm S.L.R. camera, Kodak Gold 100 print film)

CALA 2613 sits dead at the office

The entire locomotive roster for the Carolina Southern is at Chadbourn sitting dead as the look on hoping that they do not met the same fate as 943.

CALA GP30 2613 looks on at the now scrapped 943 and hopes that she does not meet the same fate as she sits dead in the yard

The once purple and silver Waccamaw Coast Line Railroad GP18 #943 has been reduced to nothing more than scattered parts of a locomotive

I am not sure if or when that might be

The heavily scarred face of Carolina Southern GP30 2613 is detailed at Mullins SC. Obviously a former Southern unit, it also carries the weathered herald of the Waccamaw Coast Line on its nose.

Side Shot

Resting in Philco Siding

CALA 3617 & 2613 lead a train towards downtown

CALA 3617 leads a train towards town

CALA dead line.

Carolina Southern Coal train passes fresh plow Carolina fields

Carolina Southern GP30 2613 at Chadbourn Departing with coal train.

Carolina Southern near the the CSXT interchange.

Ex Southern GP30 still shows it paint scheme as Carolina Southern 2613 backs on the spur with a car load for 84 Lumber.

exSouthern GP30, on the other side of the Parking Structure is the beach and ocean!

Profile of exSouthern GP30

The conductor heads out of the cab as the train approaches the 84 Lumber in Myrtle Beach

Southbound into Myrtle Beach crosses the Waccamaw River

Turbo lag on the GP30 creates a nice cloud of smoke as the engineer throttles up to pull the hill into Gurley

Southbound enroute to Conway, SC.

The Conway job southbound from Chadbourn

exSouthern GP30 still in service on the Carolina Southern