Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad

Oil Creek and Titusville Lines, Inc.

M420 3568
Overview
Headquarters	Titusville, Pennsylvania
Reporting mark	OCTL
Locale	Pennsylvania
Dates of operation	1986–
Predecessor	Conrail
Technical
Length	Owned: 13.5 miles (21.7 km) Rights: 3 miles (4.8 km)
Other
Website	http://octrr.clarion.edu/

Oil Creek and Titusville Lines, Inc. (reporting mark OCTL) is a freight and tourist railroad in Pennsylvania that runs from Titusville, Pennsylvania to Rynd Farm just north of Oil City PA. The OC&T is notable in that it operates the only working Railway Post Office[1] 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. It travels through the Oil Creek State Park on its journey over 13.5 miles (21.7 km) of track. It hauls over 1000 carloads of freight and 500,000 passengers each year. There are four stations along the line that have been used off and on to present day. They include Perry Street Station, Petroleum Center, Rynd farm Station, and Drake Well station. It has seven passenger cars converted from powered units and an open air car. It has three operating locomotives: M420 3568, S2 85 and S2 75 (the Atlas 50T 00 is not used). They also have a caboose marked O.C.T.R. 10R. They also have motels made up of cabooses no longer in service.

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