Odd Little OCS
Another frame from this one of a kind Office Car Special during the last weeks of independent Pan Am Railway's existence.
The single car OCS is shoving down the Western Route from FX headed toward Tower A and North Station. The odd little train consists of Pan Am C40-8 MEC 7552 (blt. Sep. 1989 for CSXT), CSXT executive F40PH-2 9999 (blt. Jun. 1978 as AMTK 288) and theater car 994318 named Prime F. Osborne III after the former president of Seaboard Coast Line Industries and first CEO of CSXT.
They will back down onto Track 1 at North Station CSXT's to board their passengers including CSXT's EVP and COO along with Pan Am's President, COO and other officers as well as representatives of the NNEPRA. They will travel the length of the Downeaster route from Boston to Brunswick to discuss the passenger agency's expansion plans, funding, and project priorities that will now be spearheaded by CSXT.
The big windowed car itself has a rather remarkable history. Built by Budd in 1953 as a 58 seat fluted stainless coach for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad. Originally AWP 120 it was the little road's contribution to the joint Pennsylvania Railroad, Southern Railway, AWP-WRofA, Louisville and Nashville Crescent. After the discontinuance of that train in 1970 the coach was transferred to sister Georgia Railroad and remarkably remained in service on the Atlanta-Augusta mixed train until 1983 (technically by then under the umbrella of CSX Corporation!). Once the GA finally got permission to discontinue this last mixed train in the country the car was saved by parent Seaboard System and heavily rebuilt into a theater car and given the name Georgia and numbered SBD 318. Appended with the 994 numbers it remained named Georgia until rebuilt and repainted into this B&O inspired scheme around 2020 when it received its current name.
This view looks down from the Prison Point bridge overpass at the little train making a reverse move down Main 4 approaching the back ladder in the complex interlocking. The blue and purple buildings of the MBTA's modern day Boston Engine Terminal dominate the background.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Odd Little OCS
Another frame from this one of a kind Office Car Special during the last weeks of independent Pan Am Railway's existence.
The single car OCS is shoving down the Western Route from FX headed toward Tower A and North Station. The odd little train consists of Pan Am C40-8 MEC 7552 (blt. Sep. 1989 for CSXT), CSXT executive F40PH-2 9999 (blt. Jun. 1978 as AMTK 288) and theater car 994318 named Prime F. Osborne III after the former president of Seaboard Coast Line Industries and first CEO of CSXT.
They will back down onto Track 1 at North Station CSXT's to board their passengers including CSXT's EVP and COO along with Pan Am's President, COO and other officers as well as representatives of the NNEPRA. They will travel the length of the Downeaster route from Boston to Brunswick to discuss the passenger agency's expansion plans, funding, and project priorities that will now be spearheaded by CSXT.
The big windowed car itself has a rather remarkable history. Built by Budd in 1953 as a 58 seat fluted stainless coach for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad. Originally AWP 120 it was the little road's contribution to the joint Pennsylvania Railroad, Southern Railway, AWP-WRofA, Louisville and Nashville Crescent. After the discontinuance of that train in 1970 the coach was transferred to sister Georgia Railroad and remarkably remained in service on the Atlanta-Augusta mixed train until 1983 (technically by then under the umbrella of CSX Corporation!). Once the GA finally got permission to discontinue this last mixed train in the country the car was saved by parent Seaboard System and heavily rebuilt into a theater car and given the name Georgia and numbered SBD 318. Appended with the 994 numbers it remained named Georgia until rebuilt and repainted into this B&O inspired scheme around 2020 when it received its current name.
This view looks down from the Prison Point bridge overpass at the little train making a reverse move down Main 4 approaching the back ladder in the complex interlocking. The blue and purple buildings of the MBTA's modern day Boston Engine Terminal dominate the background.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Wednesday May 18, 2022