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<blockquote data-quote="Sandpatch" data-source="post: 673898" data-attributes="member: 10543"><p>Thank you.&nbsp; You're right - it is pulling up a hill. I wanted to include it in my composition and am glad it can be seen.&nbsp; The SAL main through central SC must have been interesting during the golden era of passenger service.&nbsp; The line was completed in the teens and was not built to a high standard with it's many curves and grades.&nbsp; To handle the tide of passenger trains, the SAL put in dozens of short passing sidings throughout its length. Long slow freights brought huge dispatching headaches.&nbsp; Most of the sidings are gone today, but the rolling and curvy right of way through the piney SC sandhills remains, if only for Amtrak's Silver Star at night and our lonely late afternoon weekday local. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Sandpatch, post: 673898, member: 10543"] Thank you. You're right - it is pulling up a hill. I wanted to include it in my composition and am glad it can be seen. The SAL main through central SC must have been interesting during the golden era of passenger service. The line was completed in the teens and was not built to a high standard with it's many curves and grades. To handle the tide of passenger trains, the SAL put in dozens of short passing sidings throughout its length. Long slow freights brought huge dispatching headaches. Most of the sidings are gone today, but the rolling and curvy right of way through the piney SC sandhills remains, if only for Amtrak's Silver Star at night and our lonely late afternoon weekday local. :( [/QUOTE]

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