Engines of VIA---Budd RDC---Episode 7
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
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Via Rail discontinued passenger service to my home town of Peterborough in 1989, and I'm like 90 percent sure the last train out was an RDC.
Yes they were, the line went from Toronto to Havelock, "fish hook" in conductor terms, I used to ride it about twice a week.
I lived in Sudbury ON for 6 years and took the VIA RDC from Sudbury to White River, ON. Scenery was amazing. STRONGLY recommend this trip.
Awesome video! The set of RDCs that were rebuilt were bought from the DART by AllEarth, and are expected to see commuter service in Northern Vermont within the next year. There are two in St. Albans, VT, and another ten in Barre, VT. They will be on a VRS dinner train out of Burlington, VT in November, to show the public the qualities of the RDC. Once in service, I'll try to get as much footage of them as possible, as I'm a fan of the RDCs as well
St Albans? You totally copied England there!
Well done British people who went to America and then stole our town names from us.
Worth noting that BC Rail (formerly Pacific Great Eastern) used RDC 1s and 3s for their Vancouver-Prince George passenger service from 1956-2002
RDCs are in use on a commuter line on a G&W line In Portland OR. It's called the WES and it's run by trimet
Portland, OR's TriMet system has been buying Budd RDCs from Alaska Railroad to supplement the Colorado Railcar DMUs on their Westside Express line.
They bought two and numbered them 1702 and 1711.
The VIA RDC's were rebuilt with higher horsepower Cummins engines in the 80's apart from 6133-34 which kept their GM engines.
I am convinced that "Le Petit Train du Nord" in Québec was RDC's. I rode on then several with as a teenager to go camping with friends up North. I tried to find videos of it but could not.
A good number of the RDCs came from the Boston & Maine Railroad.
Man I've watched this series millions of times, and it never gets old. Even 2 years later.
Love your work man
2 years later.. I commented.
What kind of person thinks “Lets put jet engines on this train just because we can”
A few years back, I spotted a handful of RDCs sitting in the Belleville Ont. yard. The things you come across when you have no camera!
TriMet in the Portland, Oregon area has several RDCs, some former Alaska Railroad and some former Trinity Rail Express. Rapido Trains, Inc owns two former VIA Rail RDCs, 6133 and 6215
I was present for the NYC M497 jet RDC runs as a young child! I can still remember the RDC blasting through as it was still gaining speed! I later met the engineer who help design and drove it.
Took a Budd RDC tour car on Victoria Island about 20 years ago. It ran north about 2 hrs on a slow speed ride, stopping at points of interest and for fawns on the track. This was one great day tour; don't know if it still runs.
The tracks have been abandoned since march of 2011
It is Allearth rail in Vermont that ended up purchasing the 16 RDC' s that VIA was bidding on. They plan to run them in around the Burlington area and west on Vermont Rail System track.
Hey in scranton Pennsylvania USA there is an old alco pa VIA rail waiting for restoration
The restored RDCs in the U.S. are on the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad. I've ridden them and it's a class II line. They also have multiple steam locomotives and run regular excursions which I've also ridden.
Thank you for the nice video and all of your hard work! I'm glad you have taken an interest in these cars as I do think they are significant in railroading history.
Thanks for the montage. You should note that CN is not a government company, as you stated in your video. Its 100% privately owned, but publicly traded on the stock market.
Back in the 60's I had the opportunitiy to ride a CNR RDC in the Ottawa Valley into Ottawa. Amazing memory! Thanks for putting this together, there almost extinct.
VIA sold its remaining non working RDCs that were in storage at Mimico. 6 went to Rapido and 4 went to St.Jacobs RR. Rapido already has a restored RDC in its roster and will make several of the ones purchased operational as funding permits. There is lots of posts on all this youtube..
Alaska RR is a "government railroad" and it ran RDC years ago.
Greetings from Brazil. Used to ride these RDCs as a sort of intercity bus. We still have a couple around in tourist trains, one in Curitiba-Paranaguá grade, another one in Rio de Janeiro. The RJ one looks more like the vanilla Budds, the ones I used to ride were built under license and look quite different.
The railroad in the U.S. your talking about is Reading Blue Mountain and Northern in northeastern Pennsylvania which is a Class II regional railroad, not a Class III shortline! I railfan them and seen their RDCs.
Sweet shit i must go see this
Nice work Buddy! I loved RDCs back in the 60s watching them go through Palmerston On. to Toronto, Kincardine, Stratford, Southampton and Owen Sound. Cheerz
HiGood video.In the years 85, I worked for the company Cummins to Pointe-Claire.
In these years, VIA Rail made a major change on engines.
Of the original series GM 110 (330 HP), they changed for a NTC 340. (340 HP)
Coupled with an automatic transmission 4 or 5 speeds, made by Twin Ind.
I have myself make tests on all the engines which had to find themselves on all Budd of VIA. No information about this on Internet.
I had a conversation about RDCs last night with another fan. Apparently New Haven had the most, with Boston and Maine probably second (they replaced their entire passenger service with RDCs in the 1950's!). When Massachusetts' MBTA took over the B&M commuter operations they eventually "neutered" their Budd cars, removing the engines and the exhaust/radiator "hump", making coaches out of them. They ran that way into the early 1990's when "The T" got new equipment and many of them became the first passenger cars for Virginia's VRE commuter operation for several years. Then many of them were sold to a startup commuter operation in Texas (Dallas maybe?). They may still be operating as coaches somewhere. After all, Budd stainless coaches are virtually indestructible if taken care of properly. There was one other type of RDC you probably didn't know about. The B&O had two RDCs that were food service table cars (I think Nos. 1960 and 1961) for service between Washington, DC and Pittsburgh, PA. By the end of the 1950's, the B&O had converted that service totally to RDCs (called "Speedliners"). One of those table RDCs is/was owned by the B&O Museum in Baltimore and was used for many years as their snack bar. I don't know if that is still true. The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad between Cleveland and Akron, OH rosters around 3 RDCs, and recently converted one to being a charter executive/business/meeting car.
Just remembered, the CVSR also rosters at least one of the "neutered" MBTA Budds as a handicap access coach.
Actually, the B&M had the greatest number of units, not New Haven. I believe the grand total was 109 (Wikipedia says 108), though not all operating at the same time. They even rostered an RDC4, though it was used as spare parts source & stored in Billerica shops.
@@alanwbelcher That was my understanding before.
Rapido Trains now owns an RDC From VIA Rail! (VIA 6133)
Every major company ran RDC, because they were trying to cut costs on low revenue routes. The companies in question were actually trying to end passenger service altogether; then consumer protections stepped in and said, you can't just abandon all those passengers who came to rely on you. So after years of the companies complaining about lost revenue; the government stepped in and took over those money-losing routes, and actually made them profitable, by onsolidated them all together.
I saw all 7 budd RDC's in late 2019 and an old Via coach.
I have an ho scale rdc Budd car in the Boston and Maine livery
WE NEED HORNS! The horns are definitely the best part of trains.
Unless it’s the best sounding engine you’ve ever heard.
This video was uploaded before my birthday
I have a video of the VIA RDCs in Halifax NS & got onboard them.
ViaRailFan the Reading and Northern is the company that restored the bud cars in case you are wondering.
Great videos, enjoying these Engine of VIA segments. Glad I came across your channel!
- ECR
America: let’s put rockets on our passenger train
Russia: *LETS PUT A JIANT NUCLEAR MISSLE ON OUR PASSENGER TRAIN*
A renewable energy company in Vermont outbid VIA to acquire Trinity Railway Express' ex-VIA Budd cars, with plans to run them between Burlington and Montpelier.
AWESOME VIDEO, AS PER USUAL.
Conway Scenic owns one called the Millie
The ones we got in Australia were duds and we turned into no powered cars pretty quickly.
1:49 I don’t think you realize it, but that’s Portland Oregon’s WES service, running through Gresham, Tigard, etc... NOT VIA Rail.
1:25 that GTW one looks suspiciously CN to me...
Poopsticle_256 it is lol. They are the same company and I couldn't find any pictures of the GTW RDCs
I subscribed
SCProductions, you are off topic, the topic is RDC cars
And the NYC looks suspiciously Penn Central to me!
Grand Trunk never owned a RDC. The RDC-9 were built for the B&M and CN bought a few for the CN lines between Toronto and London.
Portland uses them in Commuter service.
That GTW RDC is on an undercover mission...
the company that rebiult the rdc’s was all earth rail
The Alaska railroad used Budd RDC.
I AM FOND OF BUDD RDC SERIES TRAIN VERY MUCH.STEEL－SILVER SKIN with YELLOW, ORANGE HEAD... looks like TZU CHAING DIESAL trains DR2600 TO DR3100 in TAIWAN.
Great video and really informative series
+Night Hawk thanks!
I know a passenger service near me the name is DCTA that has RDC
Great video! Well done.
Thanks.I thought it was in Kentville Nova Scotia at the old roundhouse but I guess not thanks tho
RedSox Fan2004 np anytime
I love them
If i want to see an RDC. Wes commuter rail has 2 running and 2 more being refurbished.
buddy good job on the series!
the cab look like the arrowIII for NJT
Awesome video! Just subscribed. I love the RDC's
They had RDCs from Amtrak and in new haven
the E&N isnt closed, the service was suspended and service may return
My favorite RDC is the RDC-3, so I learned MANY things about the RDC. An example is that there are 5 variations of the RDC. And The RDC was INTERNATIONAL and interesting. So the RDC-9 is a b-unit with a prime mover, is that true?
Yes.
I believe the Short line was The New England Central
You forgot to mention Rapido owns a preserved VIA RDC
Love these videos!
Paul G. O'Neil thank you!
Flattened many coins.
it was Reading & Northern! (RBMN)
Cough cough Boston and Maine had RDCs
I've seen the cn car, didn't get it on camera.
I like the Santa Fe RDC
i saw all 7 of them in toronto
0:32 That's the script for this episode! Don't skip and read it!
So the RDC-9's were basically railcar B-units, since they had a prime mover but no control cab?
The first time I saw an RDC I thought: dafuq is that thing.
2:04 - 51.3 metric tonnes.
Grand trunk never owned a RDC!
Could’ve sworn RDC-3s were the ones with baggage... odd.
It’ reminds of a cab car
YES WES RDCS
No they were not G M 110s They were Detroit 110s
Wow i dendent now they where locomotives
I only saw r d c s in the yard
DiamondMaster2.0 same
Is this a Subway
Reading and northern
Trinity rail express runs the rdc
The TRE cars are former VIA
You forgot new haven
1:01 what is that song
O god spongebob music
Not to insult accents but...
"Seldom Pacific"
TRE has budd rdc-1
Can u put a link to the clip at 2:02 please?
+RedSox Fan2004 here you go ua-cam.com/video/2bZXaxZ0g34/v-deo.html
Diesels are NOT motors. Motors are electric or hydraulic. Diesels are ENGINES DAMN IT! Use the correct word.
+Johnny James I was talking about the fuel type bud. In that case it is A Diesel-Electric locomotive
Wrong, The BUDD is like a truck, diesel motor, automatic transmission, drive shaft and finelly differentiel who drive the Wheel.
Sorry, what were the songs you used?
I used some songs from spongebob and the instrumental from Meatloafs I would do anything for love!
@@VIARailFan6448 thank you
5:47
Scenic railroads with RDC’s
Conway Scenic Railroad
Cape Cod Central Railroad (Non Operable)
Railway Museum of New England
TOO MANY TO COUNT!!!