A fall chase last year resulted in this photo at Warrenville, SC where the Ex-Southern route to Columbia continues to the North, while the Ex-Southern now branchline heads East.
This NS branchline was the original SC Railroad between Charleston and Hamburg, SC at the time the longest railroad in the world.
Now the line ends just east of Aiken and is abandoned from there to Branchville, SC where the line between Charleston and Columbia, SC is met.