Augusta Sub Action         
Augusta-Port Royal Local Train arrives at Yemassee, SC led by FL/SBD 4797. It is Summer, 1984 and CSX has put up notice of abandonment of the line to Port Royal. I am here to document as many Trains as possible on the Branch. But the line would be sold to the SC Ports Authority and service would continue. In less than a year, the Diamonds and this trackage will be removed and the Augusta Sun connection track will be reconfigured into a sort of Fish Hook alignment. The Augusta Sub still connects here today, but sad to say, the Port Royal Railroad quit in 2003, and the tracks were just recently torn up.
Date: 7/14/1984 Location: Yemassee, SC Views: 756 Collection Of:   Eugene Cain
Locomotives: SBD 4797(GP16)    Author:  Eugene Cain
Augusta Sub Action
Picture Categories: Action This picture is part of album:  SCL/FL/Seaboard System/CSX 1980-89
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J Thompson General Nice. 4/12/2011 1:55:38 PM
willis ford General Wow now this is history!!!!! Great to share with us. 4/12/2011 10:45:02 PM
Bernie Feltman General Look at all the pulpwood just behind the power 4/15/2011 9:41:37 AM
Fred Stuckmann General With a trainman on the front step, great shot. 12/24/2013 1:35:41 PM

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