On August 7, Pan Am Railways operated an office car special from Ayer, Massachusetts, to Mechanicville, New York, with Norfolk Southern officials inspecting the jointly-owned portion of Pan Am Southern’s Patriot Corridor. The OCS-07 consisted of PAR’s FP9A duo, PAR-1 and 2, along with sleeper ST 103, “Syd Culliford”, ST 102 Dome “BlueBird”, ST office car 101 and ST office car 100. The OCS-08 is set up to go east in Thursday with PAR-2 leading the trip east, only the second or third time PAR-2 has led and portion of a trip!
