2025 Spring Banquet

As Spring approaches, please join us for a fun evening with fellow Friends members as we look ahead to the upcoming season!  We will welcome our new Executive Director Rick Marsden and say farewell to Tim Tennant after twenty years as President.  Great food and drink, program plus merchandise and auction items!     Date: Friday March 14, 2025 Time: … Read More

Ted Norcross Passed Away

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ted Norcross, a 30-year devoted Friends volunteer and an outstanding leader. His team is known as The Square Nail Gang; a name given the team as everything they worked on was put together with square nails. For more than two decades Ted (AKA the Slave Driver) and his team … Read More

Glenn Hall Obituary

It is with regret that that we announce the passing of Glenn Hall a long time Friends member and one of the original COS Work Site founders. Glenn chronicled from start to finish the restoration of Pile Driver OB and spent 9 years on the current restoration of sleeper Car 470 (MOW 0252). His engineering skills were called upon many … Read More