070036 A Lancaster & Chester train with leased motive power passes the silos of a large feed mill. This feed mill receives enough shipments of grain--sometimes by the trainload--to have the L&C station a switching locomotive there full-time.

Increased traffic, heavier trains, and a fleet of smaller motive power that was showing its age had the L&C looking at larger motive power in 2007.

The Lancaster & Chester is a long-established railroad shortline in far northern part of South Carolina, only about 30 miles south of Charlotte, N.C., in a region that is still considered part of Charlotte's extended metropolitan area.

 

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