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11/21/2025
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Pickens Railway
Model:GE U18BBuilt As:SCL 386 (U18B)
Serial Number:39894Order No:
Frame Number:Built:11/1974
Notes:Ex-CSXT, Exx-SBD, Exxx-SCL
Other locos with this serial:  PICK 9500(U18B) CSX 9500(U18B)
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Pickens 9500
Title:  Pickens 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/26/2012 12:08:09 AM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ken Ramp JR
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  515   Comments: 0
Pickens 9500
Title:  Pickens 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/26/2012 12:11:54 AM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ken Ramp JR
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) JRWX 5035(C30-7)
Views:  759   Comments: 0
Pickens Power
Title:  Pickens Power
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/26/2012 12:17:46 AM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ken Ramp JR
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PICK 9503(U18B) PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9504(U18B)
Views:  723   Comments: 0
PICK 9504 / 9500 U18B with mixed freight
Title:  PICK 9504 / 9500 U18B with mixed freight
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/2/2012  Upload Date: 5/22/2025 10:26:22 AM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  George Nydegger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PICK 9504(U18B) PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  313   Comments: 0
pickens railroad engines sitting saturday and sunday in anderson
Title:  pickens railroad engines sitting saturday and sunday in anderson
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2012  Upload Date: 5/6/2012 7:41:45 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  tim heckman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  537   Comments: 1
pickens engines
Title:  pickens engines
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2012  Upload Date: 5/6/2012 7:45:35 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  tim heckman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  524   Comments: 0
head on with 9500
Title:  head on with 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/31/2012  Upload Date: 5/6/2012 7:49:45 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  tim heckman
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  440   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/2/2013  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 10:07:29 AM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Donald Pickford Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/2/2013  Upload Date: 6/9/2013 10:20:26 AM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Donald Pickford Jr.
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  308   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  PICK 9500 heads a short freight toward the NS interchange in Anderson.
Photo Date:  5/9/2013  Upload Date: 5/24/2013 8:25:14 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  552   Comments: 2
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  PICK 9500 is about to enter the NS interchange=trackage in downtown Anderson.
Photo Date:  5/9/2013  Upload Date: 5/24/2013 8:26:00 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  579   Comments: 1
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  PICK 9500 has stopped just short of the NS interchange.
Photo Date:  5/9/2013  Upload Date: 5/24/2013 8:26:47 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  565   Comments: 67108867
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  PICK 9500 came out of the GE factory as SCL 386.
Photo Date:  5/9/2013  Upload Date: 5/24/2013 8:27:36 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
PICK 9500 (U18B)
Title:  PICK 9500 (U18B)
Description:  Two of Pickens Railroad's U18B "Pumpkins" wait in the small NS interchange yard in downtown Anderson, SC for the NS local to bring its train in from Seneca, SC.
Photo Date:  3/14/2016  Upload Date: 3/17/2016 7:27:25 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  R. W. Bragg
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9504(U18B)
Views:  560   Comments: 0
PICK 9500 (U18B)
Title:  PICK 9500 (U18B)
Description:  The Pickens Railroad "Pumpkins" pull the NS interchange freight into their own small yard in Anderson located around a curve to the left of the cars waiting to be picked up by the NS local.
Photo Date:  3/14/2016  Upload Date: 3/17/2016 7:34:05 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  R. W. Bragg
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9504(U18B)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  The power for the Pickens Anderson job shoves back to couple to its train in downtown Anderson, SC.
Photo Date:  3/16/2016  Upload Date: 3/17/2016 5:59:39 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9504(U18B)
Views:  620   Comments: 3
PICK 9507
Title:  PICK 9507
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/3/2020  Upload Date: 1/17/2020 7:58:47 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Ryan Stuart
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9507(U18B) PICK 9503(U18B) PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  506   Comments: 1
Pickens Shops
Title:  Pickens Shops
Description:  We had planned to chase a Pickens train on this day, but the rain led us to abandon those plans.
Photo Date:  3/31/2021  Upload Date: 4/7/2021 4:43:16 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Nicholas Katz
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Track
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9503(U18B) PICK 5970(B20-8) CLCX 15140(SW1) CLCX 14136(SW8)
Views:  1237   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/2/2022  Upload Date: 3/6/2024 7:39:57 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  249   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2025  Upload Date: 4/26/2025 12:56:10 AM
Location:  Docheno, SC
Author:  George Nydegger
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
PICK 9507 & 9500
Title:  PICK 9507 & 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/24/2025  Upload Date: 4/24/2025 11:15:31 PM
Location:  Docheno, SC
Author:  George Nydegger
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9507(U18B) PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  336   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/10/2025  Upload Date: 10/15/2025 11:52:31 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Graham Rousseau
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9508(U18B) PICK 1009(GP35m)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  Pickens Railway’s “Belton Job” approaches the Amity Road grade crossing between Anderson and Belton, SC with 13 cars in tow to interchange with the Greenville and Western. Once the GRLW received the cut of cars from the PICK, they would immediately head north to Pelzer to drop them off for a CSX local to pick up and open them up to the national rail network.
Photo Date:  10/17/2025  Upload Date: 11/5/2025 5:38:44 PM
Location:  Belton, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9507(U18B)
Views:  38   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  Pickens Railway’s “Belton Job” rounds a curve and approaches the US 29 Bypass grade crossing in Anderson, SC with 13 cars in tow to interchange with the Greenville and Western. Once the GRLW received the cut of cars from the PICK, they would immediately head north to Pelzer to drop them off for a CSX local to pick up and open them up to the national rail network.
Photo Date:  10/17/2025  Upload Date: 11/5/2025 5:37:09 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9507(U18B)
Views:  36   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  Pickens Railway’s “Belton Job” passes Blue Ridge Beef along Blue Ridge Avenue in Belton, SC with 13 cars in tow to interchange with the Greenville and Western. Once the GRLW received the cut of cars from the PKHP, they would immediately head north to Pelzer to drop them off for a CSX local to pick up and open them up to the national rail network.
Photo Date:  10/17/2025  Upload Date: 11/8/2025 9:09:58 PM
Location:  Belton, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9507(U18B)
Views:  23   Comments: 1
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  ickens Railway’s “Belton Job” rounds a curve and approaches the US 29 Bypass grade crossing in Anderson, SC with 13 cars in tow to interchange with the Greenville and Western. Once the GRLW received the cut of cars from the PICK, they would immediately head north to Pelzer to drop them off for a CSX local to pick up and open them up to the national rail network.
Photo Date:  10/17/2025  Upload Date: 11/8/2025 9:08:44 PM
Location:  Belton, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9507(U18B)
Views:  20   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  ickens Railway’s “Belton Job” passes Blue Ridge Beef along Blue Ridge Avenue in Belton, SC with 13 cars in tow to interchange with the Greenville and Western. Once the GRLW received the cut of cars from the PKHP, they would immediately head north to Pelzer to drop them off for a CSX local to pick up and open them up to the national rail network.
Photo Date:  10/17/2025  Upload Date: 11/8/2025 9:09:16 PM
Location:  Belton, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9507(U18B)
Views:  19   Comments: 0
PICK 9500
Title:  PICK 9500
Description:  Pickens Railway’s “Belton Job” rounds a curve and approaches the US 29 Bypass grade crossing in Anderson, SC with 13 cars in tow to interchange with the Greenville and Western. Once the GRLW received the cut of cars from the PICK, they would immediately head north to Pelzer to drop them off for a CSX local to pick up and open them up to the national rail network.
Photo Date:  10/17/2025  Upload Date: 11/5/2025 5:35:26 PM
Location:  Anderson, SC
Author:  Moss Miller
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9507(U18B)
Views:  30   Comments: 0
Threes Company
Title:  Threes Company
Description:  Originally starting with two units, the Belton job picked up sister U18B 9500 off the PCA spur while they were in Honea Path. Shes not running right now, and theyre going to eventually drop her in about 200 yards after working Docheno siding, where the PICK is unloading and staging ties for track work. Whether its for this branch or GRLWs new customer is unknown to me.
Photo Date:  10/24/2025  Upload Date: 10/24/2025 8:07:15 PM
Location:  Honea Path, SC
Author:  Sawyer Berry
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B) PICK 9507(U18B) PICK 9508(U18B)
Views:  110   Comments: 0
Spotting Up
Title:  Spotting Up
Description:  Having removed two empty center beams, the Belton job is spotting two more for unloading behind the bulkhead flat. That car will be pulled away and left off spot so the forklift can get to either side of the center beams and unload them evenly.
Photo Date:  10/24/2025  Upload Date: 10/24/2025 8:13:35 PM
Location:  Docheno, SC
Author:  Sawyer Berry
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  PICK 9507(U18B) PICK 9508(U18B) PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  112   Comments: 0
Left Behind
Title:  Left Behind
Description:  The Belton Job has left PICK 9500 spotted on the main by Docheno siding after having retrieved her from the PCA spur earlier. My best guess is shell be used later on to swap the two center beams currently being unloaded for the bulkhead flat thats still empty. Ive heard that Pickens does also leave a unit down here in case they need to switch a customer when theres no interchange to run down from Anderson; even if fuel costs are coming down, a penny saved is a penny earned!
Photo Date:  10/24/2025  Upload Date: 10/24/2025 8:16:43 PM
Location:  Docheno, SC
Author:  Sawyer Berry
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  PICK 9500(U18B)
Views:  108   Comments: 0


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