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Those switchers were old Baldwin units, re-engined with Catepilar prime movers. Before I got out of the Air Force, the guy who operated the Shaw rail line (Bud?) spoke of getting a steam locomotive to restore and keeping it on base. I haven't been down there since November of 1997, and most of my friends have changed duty stations so I have no way of knowing if he ever got a steamer. As far as a CSX line, there is a line a few miles south of the Air Force Base that runs East/West. It is an old Seaboard line, and I remember counting between 10 and 15 trains a day on it. If you take route 261 south from route 378 about 5 or 6 miles, you will cross it at a town called Wedgefield. Turn left on I believe route 763 immediately after crossing the track, this will follow the rail line most of the way into Sumter. There is a small yard in Sumter, and the CSX used to keep a MOW train there alot with one of the 'pumkin' orange paint jobs. The yard is in kind of a run down part of town, but there used to be some good photo spots there. Also, there is a line that split off at Sumter and continued south through Pinewood. In Pinewood, there was an old station that a local community group was restoring. I can't honestly say that I have ever seen a train on this line, but the rails were always shiney, and the station in Pinewood was getting neat.
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