OFFICE SPECIAL OS500

 One of the AP&W's business trains is rolling through Hillsdale...

OS500 is lead by brand-new ET44AC 500, the class unit and the Breast Cancer Awareness unit.

Converted heavyweight baggage car #11 provides head end power to the train.

While most of the cars are Budd-built stainless steel cars, this one, the Tennessee, is painted in the colors of the Appalachian Railroad. The APRR was one of four railroads to purchase full-length dome cars, and the only eastern one to do so.

The final car is a BUDD dome-observation car. The APRR used domes mainly on its mid-western trains, as clearances were better than they were east of Cincinnati: by the time clearances were improved on the eastern half of the system to accommodate TOFC and autorack traffic, passenger traffic was dropping dramatically, thus there was no need to purchase new domes -or any other passenger equipment- during the 60's.

OS500 rolls through Hillsdale Yard.

The citizens of Hillsdale get a special treat today -the sight of an ultra-modern freight locomotive pulling a train of '50's era passenger cars! 

The red light on the observation car shines as OS500 rounds the curve and out of town.