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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.
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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It appears to be a full house in the cab of NS 5624 which is leading Conrail OCS-101 east out of Manville Yard. A single car, NS 23 "Buena Vista", is in tow.
CR OCS-101
NS 5624 GP38-2 (ex-SOU 2782)
CSXT 4403 GP40-2 (ex-CR 3286)
Pan Am's pretty little vest pocket streamliner is westbound at MP 434 (measured from Mattawamkeag, Maine) on the freight main with only 36 miles to go to reach their destination in Mechanicville where PAS meets the CP and NS. On Tuesday the train would start east destined all the way to the Bangor area allegedly carrying more prospective buyers interested in acquiring the long privately held regional.
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.
Pownal, Vermont
Sunday September 27, 2020
Western SMT ECW bodied Bristol VR B2247 OCS 577H at Scotch Corner Services returning from the Kirby Stephens running day on the 5th of April 2015.
Western SMT ECW bodied Bristol VR AB 2247 OCS 577H approaching Norton on its way home from the East Coast run on the 14th of June 2105.
KCS1 on a damp, misty, winter's day in Marshall, MO.
Kansas City Southern's gorgeous Southern Belle-liveried F-units and the rest of the OCS train haul "Rudy" and the Holiday Express from town to town. The Holiday cars are fun, but I'll take the covered wagons any day!
We couldn't have asked for a better morning or a better train or even better timing. The fog had just burned off just enough, and we had just arrive and "de-trucked." Is that a word? Anyway, we walked up to the tracks, said "hey, there's a headlight" and the Fs flew past us. Was it a dream? Pinola, IN just a little bit west of LaPorte.
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OCS577H is seen here at Kirkby Stephen, Market Street participating in the Kirkby Stephen Rally on April 5th 2015.
Western SMT ECW bodied Bristol VR B2247 OCS 577H on the A66 near Scotch Corner heading for Brough on the 5th of April 2015.
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.
After turning on the wye at Ayer, PAR 1 and PAR 2 back their train down the freight main toward the Willows, where they will layover for the night in the former Ford yard.
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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A unique office car special, hosted by the M&E and NYS&W crosses over from NJT's Raritan Valley Line to Conrail's Lehigh Line in Bound Brook, NJ. According to my notes this train carried the standard Conrail office car symbol, OCS-101. I believe it had something to do with the proposed refurbishment of the Rahway Valley and/or Staten Island Railroads. Obviously the weather didn't cooperate that day...
CR OCS-101:
ME 18 C424
NYSW 4004 B40-8
February 4, 1998
UP 1943 holds at Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago, Illinois, the starting point for its upcoming journey to Milwaukee. Shooting a unit like this at a railway station that I have used for years was certainly an experience, especially considering that freight engines, aside from the usual GP15’s, rarely make their way here.
The Pan Am Office Car Special cruises through Shirley behind PAR's classy pair of former Conway Scenic FP9s.