Looking southward on the old SAL line (SH-line).

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Zach Pumphery	General	Great shots!	2/12/2006 3:15:40 AM

Eugene Cain	General	The old base for the Tower is located just ahead of the concrete signal base you see here. It is near the Diamond area. We found it by accident when I tripped on something....the edge of the base itself. Upon "digging " it out a little, we came to the conclusion it had to be the base for a Tower or Signal House or something. There were also some Telephone Poles laying there near the Diamond area. Unfortunatly, the old C&WC line is about to be ripped out as the line was sold to the Water Authority...it has been out of service since November 23, 2003. Soon all will be gone there do have Video of the C&WC line when it was still running prior to being shut down. I filmed one train right here at Coosaw.	4/17/2010 12:00:57 PM

Eugene Cain	General	I researched this and built this Timeline. July 1967...the SCL Merger...two parallel mainlines between Charleston and Savannah. It is decided to retire a portion of the SAL north of Lobeco to Stono. This segment is out of service by October 1967. The Diamond is removed at Coosaw, and at the same time, the connection tracks are built here to serve the customer at Lobeco, and to keep the route south to Savannah in service. The sidings at Boyed and Levy are also extended at this time, and a short stretch of CTC is installed on the C&WC to Yemassee. SCL has good reasons for doing this. In 1968 ALL traffic is routed to the Coosaw Sub to allow reconstruction of the ACL Trestle across the Savannah River south of Hardeeville. The Coosaw Sub is loaded with trains at this time, and this is why the 2 sidings were extended. After the bridge is finished in 1969, train return to the A Line. The Coosaw Sub remains in service for overflow traffic. Then on April 23, 1971....a ship hit and destroyed the	10/10/2012 1:57:02 PM

Eugene Cain	General	SAL lift bridge across the Savannah River at Savannah. This is the 3rd hit on the bridge in 20 years and the decision is made not to replace the bridge, but rather to construct a new line south of Hardeeville off the ACL main over to the severed Coosaw Sub to serve customers just across the river from Savannah on Hutchingson Island. This new connection is completed in 1977. In 1978, SCL removes the Coosaw Sub from Pritchard to Coosaw. Cars are stored on the Pritchard Lead until 1982. The Pritchard Lead is removed late in 1982.	10/10/2012 2:02:39 PM

Eugene Cain	General	CSX continued to serve Hutchingson Island until the traffic all dried up in the 90s. The track remains in place, but heavily overgrown. A proposed Container Port in Jasper County may bring new life to the dormant trackage eventually.	10/10/2012 2:05:14 PM

Looking southward on the old SAL line (SH-line).
Again, thick foliage has pretty much dominated the old Seaboard freight main. You can see the old C&WC in the background and the concrete base was the southward home signal. I can only imagine the ink of the ACL/SAL merger hadn't even dried when SCL forces moved in to tear out the line north of this point, however, this line actually existed south of this point as the Coosaw Subdivision of the SCL Savannah division. From timetables, a connection existed between the SAL and the C&WC in the SE quad basically creating a alternate mainline between Yemassee, SC on the ACL and Savannah, GA. Also, two sidings that were once standard 100 car length SAL sidings were actually increased to 160 car capacity at Boyd and Levy and SCL continued the use of CTC installed by the SAL on this segment, however, the timetable didn't list schedules for this Sub and later the whole thing to Savannah would dissappear.
Date: 2/11/2006	Location: Coosaw, SC Map	Views: 364	Collection Of: Carter Buchanan
			Author: Carter Buchanan

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