CR 4020 heads up the OCS consist as it travels westbound over the Delaware River. In the background is the former CNJ Phillipsburg Union Station, which has not seen a passenger train in quite some... (more)

A Conrail Office Car Special passes by the Delaware Inn located in Hancock, NY during April 1996. Photographer unknown, Kodachrome from the John E. Troxler collection.

A 6-car Conrail Officer's Special is seen rounding the curve at Whiting, IN. Tom Golden photo.

Conrail OCS eastbound crosses former Erie RR Starrucca Viaduct built 1847-1848. The Conrail executive E8 is on "home rails" as it started out as Erie 833. The track under the viaduct is ... (more)

The geometry train works east.

A Conrail Office Car Special is about to duck under I-495 in the industrial east side of Wilmington.

A Conrail Office Car Special rolls west on the Amtrak Harrisburg Line, passing SEPTA’s former PRR gingerbread station at Strafford, Pennsylvania. E-units were quite unusual on this line, as the ... (more)

CR OCS including recently acquired full-length dome #55 comes off Rockville Bridge and heads for a stop at Enola Yard, before continuing down the Port Road Branch.

Varnish at West Falls

Conrail’s Office Car Special traverses the former Reading bridge at West Falls, Pennsylvania. The train has left Philadelphia, and is entering the West Tren... (more)

Conrail E8 #4020 leads an "Office Car Special" as it crosses the massive Delair bridge linking Philadelphia and Camden NJ.

A Conrail Office Car Special is about to enter Pennsylvania from New York on the the line that formerly passed through the "Grand Canyon of the East." The train is carrying employees to ... (more)

The Conrail OCS passes by the former Reading train station during its farewell tour.

A westbound CR OCS was dropping downgrade at Cassandra, PA on March 26, 1998 with two E8As.

Railfans are a hearty lot. Five Ithaca, NY fans followed this Conrail inspection train from Geneva, NY to Corning to Jersey Shore PA. Chase was "intense". This photographer, unfortunately, fell... (more)

With the Conrail era about to come to a close when I heard that their E's were pulling a special out of Cincinnati I made the early morning trip out of Louisville to catch them.The clouds that d... (more)