Aiken Is Maken Tracks

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Aiken Is Maken Tracks

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Steve Rich

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Photograph - Digital

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Is that another train coming down the track? I have lived in Aiken South Carolina since 1966. We are very proud of our little town. Several years ago, Aiken acquired two locomotives to perform work around our little town. When I am on my front porch in the morning, I hear these locomotives starting up and moving down the tracks.

As of July 2014, the Aiken trains consist of two locomotives, #4201 and 4202, both of which are EMD GP30s built-in 1963. At its founding, an EMD SW1500 was temporarily leased from Larry's Truck and Electric before the purchase of 4201 and 4202 from fellow WCRSC subsidiary Greenville & Western but has since been returned.

The Aiken Railway has roots going all the way back to 1827 when the South Carolina General Assembly chartered the South Carolina Canal and Railroad Company, one of the first railroads in the United States and the longest railroad in the world - 136 miles - at its inception. Aiken itself was founded as a stopover on the SCC&RR, which was completed in 1833. The second line to North Aiken, South Carolina was built in 1879 as a portion of the Edgefield, Trenton, & Aiken Railroad. Both railroads went through several mergers and eventually became part of Southern Railway. The ET&A's successor was purchased in 1898, and the SCC&RR's the following year. In 2012, Western Carolina Railway Service entered into a lease agreement with Southern's successor NS to create the Aiken Railway. Both lines of the AIKR are the only remaining active segments of their original railroads.

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