Southbound OCS heading to Tampa.

CSXT OCS looks like its encountered snow in Florida, but its actually the start of a new crop. Often this spot is covered with harvest.

Having run down across the Manatee River, the power has run around the train and will return to Tampa with #2 leading.

What we have here is an aborted run of the OCS to Saint Petersburg heading back to Jacksonville, meeting a monster M453 heading south, thus bypassing the famous street running. Silver linings pla... (more)

OCS on the Manatee. This was the final leg of a day-long run across the Bone Valley, leading (as usual) to speculation about its future. Since 2021, the train has now made three trips into the r... (more)

#2 leading on 2-22. How about that. This is the first time I can remember the OCS moving through here in many, many years. The brass toured the Bone Valley from Tampa eastward (both railroad south... (more)

OCS is on the final portion of its all-day Bone Valley tour, heading straight down to Bradenton. The bridge tender here controls Alafia, Little Manatee and Manatee River bridges.

If this was an excursion, this would be the epitome of "rare mileage", the OCS toured the entire Bone Valley on this day and in doing so ran into areas they had to run around the train, this allow... (more)

Second OCS outing for the year & it's back to Central Florida. I must say, since this train was repainted, the brass have been very interested in seeing Florida, this time heading the conventiona... (more)