Carolina Southern Railroad #3
by Joseph C Hinson
Title
Carolina Southern Railroad #3
Artist
Joseph C Hinson
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Photography
Description
Carolina Southern GP18 #943 leads a short passenger train out of Conway, South Carolina in this digital rendition of one of my original photographs. The Carolina Southern will almost certainly never run again under its own name, but we do know the fate of the 943. She was cut up for scrap in 2014. The passenger cars have been sold off making this a scene never to be recapture.
The Carolina Southern has been shut down since 2011 due to the FRA finding that some of their bridges were in bad shape. The owners, Ken Pippin and his son, Jason, tried to get trains rolling again, but found it hard to finance the needed improvements. A shortline holding company, R.J. Corman Railroad Group, has stepped in and bought the railroad. The deal is expected to close in August, 2015. This will in effect make the Carolina Southern a fallen flag railroad.
The history of this long goes back a long way before the Carolina Southern was formed in 1995 to acquire the line previously known as the Mid-Atlantic Railroad. In 1987, CSX sold the former Atlantic Coast Line rails to local investors as Duvall Transportation. A separate railroad fell under Carolina Southern control always known as the Waccamaw Coast Line. The WCL was a line from Conway to Myrtle Beach.
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December 26th, 2014
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