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Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad

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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. Briefly, from December 2, 1995 to August 1996, the Oil Creek and Titusville operated over the
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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,
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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
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on its journey over 13.5 miles (21.7 km) of track. It hauls over 1,000 carloads of freight and 15,000 passengers each year.
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marked O.C.T.R. 10R, plus the Caboose Motel, made up of several cabooses no longer in service.
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The Oil Creek and Titusville operates over tracks that were originally built as the
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The OC&T is notable in that it operates the only working
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