Description: Wes Reminder shows off his railroad photography, with an emphasis on the Conrail Office Car Special, Conrail OCS, Conrail Business Train, and Conrail Office Car material. Research the Conrail inspection train and get an interior view of the business cars as well as Conrail OCS train HO models. See amazing shots of the J Class N&W 611.
Updates March 2023 - New images on Conrail, 1, Conrail 4, and Conrail 9 pages.
As a teenager, I developed a love — I’ll stop short of admitting it to be an obsession — for the railroad known as Conrail. One particular aspect of the operations fascinated me more the rest however: the exclusive and elusive Conrail office car special. Looking at the cars (and, to a lesser extent, the locomotives) I wondered what happened behind the carefully obscured windows. What decisions were made? Who rode it and why? And more importantly to me, why couldn’t I peek behind the curtain?
As an adult, I began meeting retired Conrail employees and started this website. In 2020, I reached out to Rudy Garbely, from the Garbely Publishing Company , and floated the idea of writing a book about the Conrail business train. The rest is history and in the fall of 2021, the book “ Conrail Business & Research Trains: The Special Equipment Fleet ” was released to the world.