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I shared this shot recently: flic.kr/p/2oTS2Vr which made me think back to another ridiculously cool catch at this exact same spot just shy of five years prior.
Until the road was bought out by CSXT, Pan Am Railway's little vest pocket OCS was seen out on the road regularly, though trips other than on the mainline to Mechanicville or down to Boston were exceedingly rare. This was the only time in many years that it traveled down the Worcester main. After an amazing chase all day from the Hoosac Tunnel 100 miles east on the freight main they turned south (railroad west) for 23 miles down the Worcester Main to Barbers. They are seen passing the old freight house still dressed in tattered peeling standard B&M colors as they approach the Center Bridge Road grade crossing at MP X19.1.
PAR 1 and PAR 2 are ex Canadian National FP9s 6505 and 6516 built in 1954 and 1957 respectively by GMDD. They passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains 6505 & 6516 would become PAR 1 & 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
They are pulling the three car train consisting of dome car 102, lounge car 101, and observation/business car 100.
ST100 was originally Norfolk and Western business car 102 that was rebuilt and streamlined in 1957 from diner 1011 that was originally built by ACF in 1934. It was purchased by the D&H in 1976 and then passed to Guilford in 1984 and was retained after the 1988 bankruptcy and divestiture of the D&H.
ST101 also came from the D&H but was one of four originally built by Budd for the D&RGW in 1950 for use on the Denver-Salt Lake Prospector and was numbered 1290 named the Castle Gate. After that train was discontinued in 1967 the D&H acquired it and named it Champlain.
And ST102 was also built by Budd in 1950 for Wabash's Chicago to St. Louis "Blue Bird" and originally wore #201. It later became N&W 1611 until stored at Roanoke in 1966. In 1971 it went to Amtrak where it stayed for 22 years before ending up in private hands for 20 more years until PAR bought it in 2013.
Lancaster, Massachusetts
Thursday August 16, 2018
Preserved Western SMT Series 1 Bristol VRT OCS 577H made a welcome return to the streets of Glasgow for the GVVT Open Weekend. It was out and about on the Sunday at work on the free city centre service and seen her after its last duty heading up Broad Street for layover.
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CSX Office Car Special has just crossed Doodletown Bight trestle at Bear Mountain N.Y. and is now on Iona Island with Auto 41 signal just ahead.VIP's from both CSX and Phillips 66 left Selkirk N.Y. shortly after 9am and will be getting off the train at Oak Island in Newark N.J. P901-06 is being powered by F40PH-3 9993 and F40PH-2 9992 and has 9 cars in tow at 11:26am on Thursday 02-06-2020.The train is southbound on CSX's River Sub and the Hudson River is on the right. The word "Bight" mentioned above comes from an OLD English word "Byht" meaning "a curve or recess in a coastline,river,or other geographic feature". Howard Kent Jr. photo.
Another look back to a favorite from 2018. This was a spectacular 125 mile chase of Pan Am's pretty little streamliner 125 miles from the East Portal of the Hoosac Tunnel to Ayer and then down to Worcester. Here they are seen at passenger train speed eastbound on Main 2 just past the MBTA commuter rail stop here at MP 319 (from Mattawamkeag, ME) on Pan Am's Freight Mainline or MP 39 (from Boston North Station) on the Keolis/MBTA Fitchburg Line.
PAR 1 and PAR 2 are ex Canadian National FP9s 6505 and 6516 built in 1954 and 1957 respectively by GMDD. They passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains 6505 & 6516 would become PAR 1 & 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
They are pulling the three car train consisting of dome car 102, lounge car 101, and observation/business car 100.
ST100 was originally Norfolk and Western business car 102 that was rebuilt and streamlined in 1957 from diner 1011 that was originally built by ACF in 1934. It was purchased by the D&H in 1976 and then passed to Guilford in 1984 and was retained after the 1988 bankruptcy and divestiture of the D&H.
ST101 also came from the D&H but was one of four originally built by Budd for the D&RGW in 1950 for use on the Denver-Salt Lake Prospector and was numbered 1290 named the Castle Gate. After that train was discontinued in 1967 the D&H acquired it and named it Champlain.
And ST102 was also built by Budd in 1950 for Wabash's Chicago to St. Louis "Blue Bird" and originally wore #201. It later became N&W 1611 until stored at Roanoke in 1966. In 1971 it went to Amtrak where it stayed for 22 years before ending up in private hands for 20 more years until PAR bought it in 2013.
Shirley, Massachusetts
Thursday August 16, 2018
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
The NS OCS train sails through downtown Warsaw, Indiana on the CF&E (former PRR, PFW&C) hitting the diamond of the former Big 4 (CCC&StL) Michigan Div., now the NS Marion Branch.
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CBNS 3364, QGRY 6913, HLCX 7232, & CBNS 3366 lead a healthy sized train of 34 cars past Mile 3 on the CBNS Hopewell Sub and into the start of the OCS limits.
The PAR OCS glides through the 'Den' switch at a slow pace. In the coming years this whole line is slated for rebuild with new signals, CPFs and CWR.
OCS East
Just your standard Charlemont shot of a nonstandard train passing the surviving former Boston & Maine freight house standing between West Hawley Road and the Deerfield River at MP 407.4 on the the old Fitchburg Division, modern day Pan Am Southern's Freight Mainline. This was the third stop on my 87 mile chase across Pam Am District Three.
Pan Am Railways C40-8 MEC 7542 (GE blt. Aug. 1988 for CSXT with the same number) is pulling the four car OCS train consisting of sleeper 103, dome car 102, lounge car 101, and observation/business car 100.
ST100 was originally Norfolk and Western business car 102 that was rebuilt and streamlined in 1957 from diner 1011 that was originally built by ACF in 1934. It was purchased by the D&H in 1976 and then passed to Guilford in 1984 and was retained after the 1988 bankruptcy and divestiture of the D&H.
ST101 also came from the D&H but was one of four originally built by Budd for the D&RGW in 1950 for use on the Denver-Salt Lake Prospector and was numbered 1290 named the Castle Gate. After that train was discontinued in 1967 the D&H acquired it and named it Champlain.
ST102 was also built by Budd in 1950 for Wabash's Chicago to St. Louis "Blue Bird" and originally wore #201. It later became N&W 1611 until stored at Roanoke in 1966. In 1971 it went to Amtrak where it stayed for 22 years before ending up in private hands for 20 more years until PAR bought it in 2013.
ST103 is a former Southern Railway sleeper dating from 1917 that was part of CSXT's business car fleet until being sold to Pan Am in 2019. The car had come to CSXT by way of the Conrail split as this car was part of Conrail's OCS and was numbered Conrail 8. Conrail had acquired the car from the SOU in 1983 and was completely remodeled after decades of revenue service. To learn more about this car check out this fabulous history: www.the-boring-the-adoring.com/conrail-blog/conrail-sleep...
ST103 is currently named 'Syd Culliford', after Sydney Culliford, a retired board member and long-time B&M Employee. Sydney was first introduced to railroading by interning at the Boston and Maine Railroad in the Engineering Department. Following college graduation, Sydney began a career with the railroad that would span over 50 years, eventually becoming Vice President of Transportation and serving as a member of the Board of Directors for Pan Am Railways until his retirement in 2014. He passed away in February of 2019 and the 'new' car was subsequently renamed in his honor.
Charlemont, Massachusetts
Saturday November 13, 2021
Norfolk Southern OCS train with EMD F-9A 4270, heads underneath the PRR signals in Leetsdale, heading east back to Altoona.
The NS OCS highballs east to Bellevue as it passes one of the few remaining NKP signal brackets at Mortimer, Ohio
CSX's P001-25 glides slowly across the St Joe River as it crosses from Saint Joseph to Benton Harbor on a warm and sunny August morning. Originally we were planning on shooting this train in New Buffalo first, however it left Chicago over an hour early! So we "settled" for St. Joe instead, not that I'm complaining!
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Norfolk Southern OCS train with EMD F-9A 4270, heads underneath the PRR signals in Leetsdale, heading east back to Altoona.
For Monochrome Monday here's a steam bonus. This was one of the most epic steam shows of my life so here's another frame rendered in black and white.
Reading and Northern 2102 is leading a Fall Foliage excursion round trip from North Reading to Jim Thorpe and return. The stout 4-8-4 was built in 1945 and from the railroad's corporate website here is a bit of history:
The company, using parts from a former 76-foot Class I-10sa Consolidation 1923 Baldwin locomotive, created a fleet of 30 middleweight engines in the T-1 series. The goal of building these locomotives was to be able to haul both freight and passenger traffic along the rails.
The original Baldwin-built I-10 class, which were large 2-8-0 locomotives, would become the T-1 class, converted to much larger 4-8-4 engines by redesigning and lengthening the Boiler and replacing the Frame and Wheels with brand new parts. Baldwin supplied the parts, but the rebuilding was done in the Reading Railroad’s own shops right in Reading, PA.
She is seen here on historic 'home rails' of the old Reading Company sending smoke and steam to the heavens as claws at the wet rails starting 17 cars north after making a scheduled stop to pick up passengers here at the railroad's headquarters town at about MP 78.4 on modern day RBMN's Reading Division mainline.
Home of the RBMN's corporate offices, dispatching center, locomotive shop, and covered train shed for their OCS equipment Port Clinton is a railfan's delight with props galore like this signal bridge that was saved and reinstalled here (if anyone knows where it was originally I'd love to know) and the juxtaposition of old and new in the form of switch stands with a modern bow handles and old school colored lantern targets. Now fully equipped with a CTC signaled mainline there was virtually nothing here in 1996 when the RBMN chose this site for their new centralized headquarters and shop complex. When the Reading Cluster was acquired from Conrail in 1990 the only thing to be found in this spot was a lonely unsignaled switch in the middle of the woods.
To learn more about this locomotive check out the RBMN's page here: www.rbmnrr-passenger.com/2102-updates
Port Clinton, Pennsylvania
Saturday October 14, 2023
RBMN 270 wastes not a second in keeping the LGSR train on schedule, as it roars around the corner into Jim Thorpe yard, of course with 275 trailing.
While nothing tops the Bardwells shot as seen here: flic.kr/p/2mKcyfM I did stick with this train till dusk since they were headed east in the direction of home for me anyway. I had hoped to get them crossing the river in Erving but they stopped in East Deerfield for 90 min or more and by the time they showed up I'd lost the light. So after watching them pass I headed to the last two spots where the track aligns in a way that some light would work for an afternoon eastbound, though in the end the point was moot anyway as the clouds rolled in.
This would have been the very last bit of sun but alas the expected clouds (that would later open up to a deluge!) has rolled in. But having never shot here I figured I'd stay cause who knows if I'll ever shoot this train again as Pan Am's days begin to wane.
Here is the little four car special passing under the 'The Little Zakim Bridge' (John T. Centrino Memorial Drive) at CPF GL just east of the MBTA station here at MP 329 (of BF 49 as designated by Keolis/MBTA as measured from North Station) on District Three of Pan Am Southern's Freight Main, the one time Fitchburg Division. This is the exact spot where the New Haven's Fitchburg branch met the B&M and the abandoned siding in the foreground is all that's left of the industry and yard trackage here where the two roads once interchanged. Today the NH line is a trail about 4 miles or so to Leominster where it remains in service beyond operated by CSXT.
Pan Am Railways C40-8 MEC 7542 (GE blt. Aug. 1988 for CSXT with the same number) is pulling the four car OCS train consisting of sleeper 103, dome car 102, lounge car 101, and observation/business car 100.
ST100 was originally Norfolk and Western business car 102 that was rebuilt and streamlined in 1957 from diner 1011 that was originally built by ACF in 1934. It was purchased by the D&H in 1976 and then passed to Guilford in 1984 and was retained after the 1988 bankruptcy and divestiture of the D&H.
ST101 also came from the D&H but was one of four originally built by Budd for the D&RGW in 1950 for use on the Denver-Salt Lake Prospector and was numbered 1290 named the Castle Gate. After that train was discontinued in 1967 the D&H acquired it and named it Champlain.
ST102 was also built by Budd in 1950 for Wabash's Chicago to St. Louis "Blue Bird" and originally wore #201. It later became N&W 1611 until stored at Roanoke in 1966. In 1971 it went to Amtrak where it stayed for 22 years before ending up in private hands for 20 more years until PAR bought it in 2013.
ST103 is a former Southern Railway sleeper dating from 1917 that was part of CSXT's business car fleet until being sold to Pan Am in 2019. The car had come to CSXT by way of the Conrail split as this car was part of Conrail's OCS and was numbered Conrail 8. Conrail had acquired the car from the SOU in 1983 and was completely remodeled after decades of revenue service. To learn more about this car check out this fabulous history: www.the-boring-the-adoring.com/conrail-blog/conrail-sleep...
ST103 is currently named 'Syd Culliford', after Sydney Culliford, a retired board member and long-time B&M Employee. Sydney was first introduced to railroading by interning at the Boston and Maine Railroad in the Engineering Department. Following college graduation, Sydney began a career with the railroad that would span over 50 years, eventually becoming Vice President of Transportation and serving as a member of the Board of Directors for Pan Am Railways until his retirement in 2014. He passed away in February of 2019 and the 'new' car was subsequently renamed in his honor.
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Saturday November 13, 2021
NS 955 “the OCS Train” makes a Run for CP-146 for a Crew Change and then to Cincinnati to tie down for the weekend before heading to TN on Monday.
The eastbound NS Office Car Special (OCS) passes the intermediate signals east of Miller City, Ohio. Yes, the signal on the left hand side is leaning.
Pan Am's pair of FP9s, acquired from the Conway Scenic in return for a GP35 and GP38, trundle west through Oakland with both business cars in tow. They're about to roll west through CPF-119, the location of the former east switch of the Oakland siding. Behind the engines is the Madison Branch, which has been mostly out of service for the last few years, now being used only for car storage.
I wasn't planning on coming out today, but once I got all my errands done I just said why not and came up again. Here it is rolling through Shirley, MA
Another look back to this ridiculously cool day three years ago.
This was a spectacular 125 mile chase of Pan Am's pretty little streamliner 125 miles from the East Portal of the Hoosac Tunnel to Ayer and then down to Worcester. Here they are southbound (railroad west) at MP 16.8 on Pan Am's Worcester main. They are passing the dual level union passenger station dating from 1918. The structure was designed by architect Robert C. Reamer better known for his work in the Western US including the grand wooden Old Faithful Inn. Serving trains of the New Haven on the upper level and the Boston and Maine on the lower it saw its last B&M commuter train leave for Boston in 1958, with the last New Haven train having called decades earlier. Today the one time three tracks overhead here have been reduced to one on what is now CSXT's Fitchburg Secondary at about MP QBU13.4 and normally see only the passage of local B724 three or so times per week.
PAR 1 and PAR 2 are ex Canadian National FP9s 6505 and 6516 built in 1954 and 1957 respectively by GMDD. They passed from CN to VIA Rail in 1978 before being picked up by the Conway Scenic in 1995 when they expanded into Crawford Notch. After 15 years spent hauling tourists in the White Mountains 6505 & 6516 would become PAR 1 & 2 when traded to Pan Am Railways in March 2010 for GP38 252 and GP35 216.
They are pulling the three car train consisting of dome car 102, lounge car 101, and observation/business car 100.
ST100 was originally Norfolk and Western business car 102 that was rebuilt and streamlined in 1957 from diner 1011 that was originally built by ACF in 1934. It was purchased by the D&H in 1976 and then passed to Guilford in 1984 and was retained after the 1988 bankruptcy and divestiture of the D&H.
ST101 also came from the D&H but was one of four originally built by Budd for the D&RGW in 1950 for use on the Denver-Salt Lake Prospector and was numbered 1290 named the Castle Gate. After that train was discontinued in 1967 the D&H acquired it and named it Champlain.
And ST102 was also built by Budd in 1950 for Wabash's Chicago to St. Louis "Blue Bird" and originally wore #201. It later became N&W 1611 until stored at Roanoke in 1966. In 1971 it went to Amtrak where it stayed for 22 years before ending up in private hands for 20 more years until PAR bought it in 2013.
Clinton, Massachusetts
Thursday August 16, 2018
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