 A number of special commemorative runs of the "Spirit of Progress" have operated since the end of the regular train service.To mark the 50th anniversary of the first train, a commemorative train organised by the Australian Railway Historical Society ran on 14 November 1987.With the original 1937 S type carriages still in regular service with V/Line (and painted in V/Line's tangerine livery) the 50th anniversary train instead consisted of the last remaining set of air-conditioned blue and gold E type carriages then operated by V/Line, hauled by R707, with Parlor Car "Norman" the only vehicle in the train from the original "Spirit of Progress" consist.