One of the busiest lines in SC. The other two are CSX's A-Line coming up from Savannah through Charleston & Florence. The other is the Abbeville Sub from Atlanta to Hamlet, NC. I have a video on old Seaboard Coast Line action from the 1970's shot in Hamlet. You see Frisco engines and also L&N engines and also an old Georgia RR power on one train. Plus there is a lot of coal action between Laurens & Chesnee.
You are right. In pre PSR days and most coal plants were still running, railroading in SC on these prime routes you mentioned were busy. But NS closed the hump at Linwood and all but one through freight, 153 and 154 were left through Greenville. If not for intermodal, the NS Piedmont main wouldn't have much to it now. CSX closed Hamlet overall and the Abbeville Subdivision lost the majority of it's traffic down to one through freight Hamlet and Greenwood and one Greenwood and Cayce. Coal pretty much is gone. Amazing what has happened within a decade sadly.
@@mkl62 I know. I was just typing based on what you had. But at one time, it was the Abbeville Sub all the way up too Monroe and Monroe Sub from Bostic to Hamlet (before Monroe / Bostic became Charlotte Sub).
Nice catch and meet. Counterparts pulling long trains. I caught 238 in the same area 2 weeks ago.
One of the busiest lines in SC. The other two are CSX's A-Line coming up from Savannah through Charleston & Florence. The other is the Abbeville Sub from Atlanta to Hamlet, NC. I have a video on old Seaboard Coast Line action from the 1970's shot in Hamlet. You see Frisco engines and also L&N engines and also an old Georgia RR power on one train. Plus there is a lot of coal action between Laurens & Chesnee.
You are right. In pre PSR days and most coal plants were still running, railroading in SC on these prime routes you mentioned were busy. But NS closed the hump at Linwood and all but one through freight, 153 and 154 were left through Greenville. If not for intermodal, the NS Piedmont main wouldn't have much to it now. CSX closed Hamlet overall and the Abbeville Subdivision lost the majority of it's traffic down to one through freight Hamlet and Greenwood and one Greenwood and Cayce. Coal pretty much is gone. Amazing what has happened within a decade sadly.
@@milepost4846 The Abbeville Sub is now Atlanta to Greenwood. Greenwood to Hamlet is now the Monroe Sub.
@@mkl62 I know. I was just typing based on what you had. But at one time, it was the Abbeville Sub all the way up too Monroe and Monroe Sub from Bostic to Hamlet (before Monroe / Bostic became Charlotte Sub).