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A lattice work of engineering, Kings Creek Railroad Trestle spanned field and stream in upstate South Carolina.

The track was a Southern Railway line which ran from Kingville SC to Marion NC. Carolina Coastal once used the portion from Kings Creek to Blacksburg. The rail bed beyond Kings Creek was ripped up years ago. A relic from the past, the 96-foot-high Kings Creek Trestle was 1,215 feet long. This line was known for using a "spacer" car between two engines due to the weight limitation of the curved trestle over Buffalo Creek, about half a mile west of this location. SC Highway 5 between York and Blacksburg followed the old tracks for a distance on its way to Kings Creek.

This photograph was shot on Kodak Tri-X Pan 35mm black and white film.

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Rodger Painter is a national award winning photojournalist whose photography has appeared in newspapers, magazines and books. He has worked as a reporter, feature writer, photographer and editor in newspaper. His work earned more than a dozen awards in news and feature writing and photography in competitions sponsored by the South Carolina Press Association, the National Newspaper Association and the National Newspaper Editorial Workshop. He twice won the coveted Edward Steichen Memorial Award for Excellence in Newspaper Photography. He has worked for as a cameraman in the motion picture industry on more than three dozen feature films and numerous TV commercials, TV movies and documentaries. His work has taken him from coast to coast...