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101 South Fourth Street
P.O. Box 490
Hartsville, South Carolina
Phone: (803) 332-7584
Fax: (803) 332-1222
Reporting marks: SCRF
Radio Frequency: 161.175
Location of engine house: Hartsville and Cheraw, SC
The South Carolina Central Railroad operates two unconnected lines in South Carolina. One extends from a connection with CSX at Florence to Bishopville, some 42.4 miles. Rail is 70 to 132 pound. The other extends from a CSX connection at Cheraw to Society Hill, 13 miles. Rail is mostly 85 pound on this branch. SCRF abandoned track from Floyd to Society Hill after start up. Later, track was abandoned from Bishopville to Sumter.
The lines are former Seaboard Air Line, except for the Florence/Hartsville portion, which is Atlantic Coast Line heritage. CSX Transportation sold the lines to South Carolina Central on December 1, 1987.
Traffic includes paper, forest products, grain, steel, coal, chemicals, food products and automobiles, some 24,000 cars annually.
South Carolina Central was a RailTex property and is now RailAmerica.
Matt Conrad has a nice, unofficial South Carolina Central site at:
http://www.scrm.org/scinfo/scrf/index.html
Getting a true locomotive roster for this line is difficult. I have found three of them -- four now -- and all of them are different from one another often in major ways. But here we go.
Current South Carolina Central Railroad Roster
| # | Builder | Model | Horses | Notes |
| 8 | GM | SW1200r | 1200 | Phelps Dodge 8 as an NW2; Austin & Northwestern 8; Missouri & Northern Arkansas 8; in SCRF blue; unclear on when this one morphed into a SW1200r |
| 75 | GM | GP10 | 1850 | Illinois Central GP9 9375; rebuilt to Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8375 8/74; to New Orleans Lower Coast Railroad 8375, to CPDR 75; in SCRF blue |
| 77 | GM | GP10 | 1850 | Illinois Central GP9 9377, rebuilt to Illinois Central Gulf GP10 8377 (1/75), to New Orleans Lower Coast Railroad 8377, to CPDR 77; in SCRF blue |
| 2027 | GM | GP16 | 1750 | ATSF 2728; rebuilt to 2027 11/81; to Georgia Southwestern 2027; in SCRF blue |
| 2053 | GM | GP7 | 1500 | ATSF 2882; rebuilt to ATSF 2053; to Texas & New Mexico 2053; in Texas & New Mexico paint |
| 2207 | GM | GP7 | 1500 | ATSF #2664; rebuilt to ATSF to 2207 in 9/80; sold to RailTex in 10/91; used as start-up power on the Pittsburgh Industrial in Dec 96; to SCRF, to Georgia Southwestern, in Salt Lake City Southern paint |
| 6412 | GM | GP40-2 | 3000 | ex-DTI 412; in Grand Trunk Western red, white and blue, arrived in late 2001, leased from RMGX, Railcar Limited |
| 6415 | GM | GP40-2 | 3000 | ex-DTI 415; in Grand Trunk Western red, white and blue, arrived in late 2001, leased from RMGX, Railcar Limited |
| 8383 | GM | GP10 | 1850 | built as NYCS 5728; to Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad 1509; rebuilt to Illinois Central Gulf 8383, to CPDR 8383; in SCRF blue |
None of the locomotives are in the RailAmerica paint scheme as of Feb. 2002. Additional photographs can be found on my Shortlines of the Carolinas page.
If anyone has anything to add or clarify to this page, please feel free to e-mail me at jchinson@infoave.net.
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