The OCS cruses past the classic D&H coal building in Cobleskill NY.

A rare weekend OCS excursion heads west on it's final miles to it's arrival to Mechanicville Yard.

A rare weekend OCS excursion crosses over the Hudson River on it's arrival from Ayer to Mechanicville Yard.

El RENO OK Mar 23 1975 -- Rock Island F9AM 4165 and three other F units handle a southbound train making its way toward Chickasha OK and points south.

The OCS train slits the town of Kings Mountain as it deadheads from Jacksonville Florida to Altoona Pennsylvania.

On August 3rd, 2016, Norfolk Southern ran its Office Car Special over the former Nickel Plate Road between Cleveland, Ohio and Buffalo, New York. Here, the train is seen gliding across the Grand R... (more)

A deadhead OCS bound for Rockport Yard meanders its way downhill into Downtown Cleveland, all from a seldom-seen perspective.

The Office Car Special is about to re-enter into home trackage off of the CSX Toledo Subdivision, for directional running to Gest Street yard, where it will receive fuel and a new crew before hopp... (more)

Are we back in 1990? Yeah right, I wish, although I would not even have been born for another 7 years. Anyways BN-1 and BN-3 patiently await the start of Illinois Railway Museum's Diesel Days to s... (more)

LTV 4214 leads an unusual consist thru the unloading dock in Taconite Harbor. The Mesabi Miner has just docked in the background.

The WICT test train from Janesville, WI to Fox Lake, IL was supposed to end short of the bridge over the Fox River. So imagined how surprised the few of us who did the whole chase were when the cr... (more)

LTV/Erie 4212 bursts out of Cramer Tunnel with empty ore cars in September of 1987. It is a shame this line non longer operates.

The NS OCS rolls thru a 25 MPH speed restriction at Oakdale, on a trip south on the CNO&TP to Chattanooga, and eventually to Jacksonville, FL. I was very excited to see this train for the first ti... (more)

On the morning of the Bicentennial of the United States of America, the Rio Grande Zephyr heads east into Spanish Fork Canyon during its journey from Salt Lake City to Denver.