Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad

Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad
Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad

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OC&T 75 at Drake Well.jpg
ALCO S-2 #75
Reporting mark OCTL, OCTT
Locale Crawford County and Venango County, Pennsylvania
Dates of operation July 18, 1986 (1986-07-18)
Predecessor Conrail
Track gauge 4 ft 8 12 in (1,435 mm) (standard gauge)
Length 16.5 miles (26.6 km)
Headquarters Oil City, Pennsylvania
Website octrr.clarion.edu
[v · d · e]Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad
Legend
Unknown BSicon "ENDEa"
Junction to left Continuation to right
Fieldmore Springs / East Titusville
Station on track
Perry Street (Titusville)
Level crossing
South Franklin Street (PA 8)
Bridge over water
Oil Creek
Straight track
Unrestricted border on track
Crawford CountyVenango County
Bridge over water
Oil Creek
Scenic interest Station on track Unknown BSicon "BICYCLE"
Drake Well
Straight track
Unknown BSicon "mfKRZo"
Oil Creek State Park trail
Bridge over water
Oil Creek
Station on track Unknown BSicon "BICYCLE"
Petroleum Centre
Straight track
Straight track
Bridge over water
Oil Creek
Straight track
Station on track
Rynd Farm
Unknown BSicon "CONTd"
Western NY & PA To Oil City


The Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad (reporting mark OCTT) is a tourist railroad that runs from Titusville to Rynd Farm north of Oil City in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The Oil Creek and Titusville Lines (reporting mark OCTL) is the designated operator of the railroad, as well as the freight carrier on the line.

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History

The Oil Creek and Titusville operates over tracks that were originally built as the main line of the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Railroad in the 1880s; trackage in Titusville was originally owned by the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad.[1] The Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia was reorganized in 1887 into the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad, which was eventually acquired by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1900. The Pennsylvania was merged with the New York Central Railroad in 1968 and became Penn Central. In 1976, Penn Central went bankrupt, along with several other railroads, and was combined into Conrail.

In 1986, the line was acquired from Conrail by the Oil Creek Railway Historical Society, with the first tourist trains running on July 18; freight operations began on September 25, 1986.[1] Briefly, from December 2, 1995 to August 1996, the Oil Creek and Titusville operated over the former Conrail main line between Meadville and Corry.[1] The operation and ownership of that line reverted back to Conrail before being turned over to the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad.

Infrastructure

The OC&T is notable in that it operates the only working Railway Post Office[2] in the United States. For income, it may carry a few freight cars at the end of the passenger cars. The trackage was formerly Conrail and was out of service in 1986 when it was purchased by the founders. The inaugural excursion came in July of that year.The railway travels through the Oil Creek State Park on its journey over 13.5 miles (21.7 km) of track. It hauls over 1,000 carloads of freight and 500,000 passengers each year.

Stations

Rail station along the line.

Four stations along the line that have been used off and on to present day: Perry Street, Petroleum Centre, Rynd Farm, and Drake Well. It has seven passenger cars converted from powered units and an open-air, gondola car. It has three operating locomotives: MLW M-420 #3568, and Alco S-2's #75 and #85 (the Atlas 50T 00 is not used).

The railway also havs a caboose marked O.C.T.R. 10R plus several motels made up of cabooses no longer in service.

Image No. Model Builder Built Notes
OCTR3568.jpg 3568 M-420 Montreal Locomotive Works 1970 ex St. Thomas and Eastern Railway[3]
exx Canadian National Railway[3]
85 S-2 American Locomotive Company 1950
75 S-2 American Locomotive Company 1947

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b c Lewis, Edward A (1996). American Shortline Railway Guide. Waukesha, Wisconsin: Kalmbach Publishing. p. 235. ISBN 0-89024-290-9. 
  2. ^ octrr.clarion.edu
  3. ^ a b Springirth, Kenneth C (2010). Railroads of Northwestern Pennsylvania. Images of Rail. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing. p. 121. ISBN 0-7385-7347-7. 

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