Welcome to the Trainscapes segment! Each week here on Geek Alabama, Trainscapes will feature train content including videos of trains and behind the scenes action of trains and locomotives. Some people have an interest in seeing trains, and we here at Geek Alabama aim to please the train lovers!

We took a ride on a 1940s vintage “speeder car,” also known as a motorcars or railcars. These machines replaced the old hand-pumped cars often seen in old western films. They were used for inspection and maintenance of the railroad, and in recent years have been replaced by “Hy-Rail” vehicles, trucks with the ability to run on both rails and roads. This particular run took place on the Oil Creek & Titusville Railroad, starting at Perry Street Station in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and ending at Rynd Farm, in Oil Creek State Park.

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