Just a note that at the DARDPI wiki we do have a roster with all the known RDCs to have run on the DAR. Of course, there's always one more we never knew about...
... ARR 712 travelled from Anchorage to Whittier as part of an ARR freight consist and boarded the Fairbanks Provider, an Alaska Railbelt Marine rail barge, at...
... ARR 712 is presently (mid-day on July 10) in the BNSF yard at Seattle waiting to be made up as part of a freight consist for movement over the ex-GN...
You can see the bid results on the RDC's here at this link: http://akrr.com/pdf/ITB%2008%2051%2056069.pdf Ony 2 bids and it was only for RDC #712. Now someone...
ARR 712 departed Seattle at 2:04 p.m. today and departed Tacoma/Ruston at 5:42 p.m. heading for Vancouver, WA and then east to Pasco due in during the wee...
ARR 712 (ex-NYC M480), a Budd RDC-2 rebuilt by Talgo LRC for the ARRC in 2001, is on the move across the ex-GN Hi-Line as part of a high priority merchandise...
Presently expected at Whitefish today (7/19) at 3:45 p.m, Havre and Williston on 7/20 at 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., and Minot and Dilworth (Fargo/Moorhead) on 7/21...
... As I understand it, that RDC will never run again once it's in its new home. It effectively becomes a building. That doesn't make it any less a former...
... hate to see them chopped up or just sit as a display or somehting! They were the workhorses of the commuter operations for years! ... were junk! I only...
From what I understand, it will actually work as a shuttle at it's new location from the parking lot to the building... Granted, it's not a long run, but the...
... They were mechanically unreliable at first. Later, after rework, they became less unreliable but couldn't ever have been called "reliable" until...
H PASNTW9 18 including ARR 712 laid over in Havre today under a change in the trip plan and is due to depart at 7 p.m. this evening. Revised projected...
ARR 712 arrived at Dilworth, MN in the wee hours and H PASNTW9 19 was issued another work order upon arrival there, causing arrival at Northtown and...
BNSF reset the departure from Dilworth and it departed this afternoon at 12:25 p.m. It passed by Becker, MN at 7:20 p.m. (by my estimates about 40 miles from...
But VIA rail does. And with the current locomotive engineers strike on at VIA Rail, the ONLY trains running for VIA are the RDC runs! Imagine that...a...
Jaap, VIA Rail's RDC runs are operated by the host railroad. CP Rail(Sudbury-White River, 1 CP engineer, 1 CP conductor and a bagagge handler) and the Southern...
On Vancouver Island, the operation of the train service has been contracted out to Southern Railway of Vancouver Island. Their engineers are most certainly...
... Conductors and Engineers (MUST put the one in charge of the train first!) operating the Sudbury-White River and Vancouver Island RDCs are employed by the...
Yes Jon, they are unionized employees. They were UTU 1778(with the conductors and trainmen BC Rail south) but last I heard they are now Teamsters 320(with the...
Well this isn't the USA and the Canada Labour Code is very clear. Railway employees operating under a valid collective aggrement are required to cross a picket...
