Rail Freight Carriers in

South Carolina

An Aiken Railway freight train, unknown location.
Locomotive 4202 is an EMD GP30u 2500hp Bo-Bo diesel electric.

Long Haul Railways

CSX, Norfolk Southern

Regional & Local Railways

• Aberdeen & Rockfish Rail Road (Pee Dee River Railway) McColl (interchange with CSX) via Bennettville (branch to Breeden) to Marlboro Mills. Total length of line about 20 miles (32 km). Also has operations in NC.
• Aiken Railway Warrenville (interchange with Norfolk Southern) via Aiken (branch to North Aiken) to Oakwood. Total length of line about 19 miles (30 km) (Details of railway are at bottom of page, below those for Greenville & Western Railway)
• Carolina Piedmont Railroad Laurens (interchange with CSX) to East Greenville; about 33 miles (53 km)
• Department of Energy Savannah River Site has its own railway network, interchanging with CSX at Donora and Dunbarton (Website contains no information relating to railway)
• Greenville & Western Railway Pelzer (interchange with CSX) via Belton (interchange with Norfolk Southern and Pickens) to Burns, about 13 miles (20 km).
• Lancaster & Chester Railway Chester (interchange with CSX and Norfolk Southern) via Orrs (branch to East Chester where there is interchange with CSX) and Lancaster (branch to Catawba Junction where there is interchange with CSX and Norfolk Southern) to Kershaw. Total length of line about 62 miles (100 km)
• Palmetto Railways several separate railways:
  • Camp Hall Rail new railway under construction from Cross (interchange with CSX) to Camp Hall Commerce Park, about 23 miles (37 km)
  • East Cooper & Berkeley Railroad State Junction, near Cordesville (interchange with CSX) via Charity Church to factories
  • Hampton & Branchville Railroad Hampton (interchange with CSX) via H&B Junction (branch to Lodge) and Stokes (branch to Walterboro) to Canadys. Total length of line about 46 miles (74 km). Currently has no regular traffic and may be out of service
  • Port Terminal Railroad of South Carolina switching railway in the North Charleston Port Terminal, interchanging with CSX and Norfolk Southern; proposed service to new Intermodal Container Transfer Facility in the former Charleston Naval Complex
  • Port Utilities Commission of Charleston switching railway in the Columbus Street Port Terminal of Charleston, interchanging with CSX and Norfolk Southern
  (When last checked, website contained little detailed information relating to railway operations)
• Pickens Railway South Anderson via Anderson (interchange with Norfolk Southern) and Belton (interchange with CSX) to Honea Path, about 28½ miles (46 km)
• R J Corman Carolina Lines Mullins (interchange with CSX) via Pitt, Chadbourn NC (branch to Whitesville NC), Howard and Conway to Myrtle Beach. Total length of line about 90 miles (145 km)
• R J Corman Switching switching services at New-Indy Containerboard, Catawba, interchanging with CSX and Norfolk Southern
• South Carolina Central Railroad Florence (interchange with CSX) to Bishopville, about 49 miles (79 km)

Military Railway

Websites do not in general contain details of railway facilities

• US Air Force serving Shaw Air Force Base from Cane Savannah (junction with CSX)