A name that points somewhere else
An automobile ramp named for the state capital
The North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics lists two rail yards near this place and neither sits inside it. Both are under CSX Transportation: the Columbia Auto Ramp Yard at 1.38 miles, and Carolina Eastman at 5.17 miles.
The Columbia Auto Ramp Yard shows what a name is worth. The same rail network data places it 1.38 miles from here in no incorporated place at all, and Columbia is some miles north up the road.
It belongs to a family of automobile-handling yards across the country in the same rail network data — four in Oregon ending in Auto Yard, Quonset Auto Load in Rhode Island, and the Atlanta Auto Ramp in Georgia. So the name does say something real about what kind of facility it is.
What it does not say is what actually moves through it.
North American Rail Network, Federal Railroad Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics; U.S. Census 2024 Gazetteer, South Carolina places.
Getting the truck moved
A truck out here does not need anybody to drive to it
It changes nothing about the sale. We buy trucks remotely and arrange the tow, which takes the drive out of it entirely; we also come to you and drive it away, we come to you and tow it, and you can bring it to us if you happen to be heading our way.
None of those runs on a clock, and which one happens depends on where the truck stands.
We buy all of them, including the ones standing well outside a town boundary — the three yards on this page are 1.11 miles, 1.38 miles and 5.17 miles out and not one of them is inside a place either — Robinson at 1.11 miles and Carolina Eastman at 5.17 miles.
- Does that change what you want to know about it?Only in the detail. Tell us about the deck and the ramps as well as the driveline — a hydraulic section or a set of ramps that has been removed and sold is the completeness line rather than a repair.
Around the Columbia Auto Ramp Yard, and out towards Carolina Eastman 5.17 miles off, the same trucks come up for sale for the same reasons.