Hi ! I took about 6 rides on the Budds between Shebrooke and Vallee- Jonction. I recomend you this ride. For more informations, visit their website at : ...
Hi! I'm a new member of the list from the UK, and I've been interested in the Budd RDC since hearing about BCRail's now gone Cariboo Prospector service back...
Bevis, you might be interested to know that you can ride the BC Rail RDCs again. In fact they're about 3,000 miles closer to you now. Two of them are now...
The Wilton Scenic is opening up this Saturday! Come on over and ride!!! Don't know if I'll be working tho. Matt Your friendly conductor of the Wilton Scenic...
Kind of hard for me to get there...seeing as how I live in Victoria, BC. But I'll be riding RDC's next week. On the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway from Victoria...
This may seems like an odd request but I am looking for a photo of the CN unit cars from above and from the rear looking forward. CN's cars had at least a...
Pete: The standard text on RDC is Duke & Keilty: "RDC: The Budd Rail Diesel Car" 1990 (2nd print in 1999), Golden West Books. It has a good picture of C&O...
A good friend of mine, Wendy Shortz, who is a prominent local artist in northeastern Pennsylvania, recently showed me some excellent prints of her railroad...
Mr. Donald C. Wetzel, chief pilot of the M-497 Jet Train in 1966, will be making two short presentations about the preparations and the runs. He will have a...
To the Budd List and Mr. Berndt ... Boy, oh boy! I sure wish I could make it to Mr. Wetzel's presentation, but I will be in Mobile, AL on family biz. If any...
I was wondering if any one could point me at any other references of Budd RDCs being used to pull other coaches/wagons. I found two photos in the Keilty book,...
Bevis, J. W. Swanberg's NEW HAVEN POWER includes a photo of one of the NH's pre-WWII lightweight "American Flyer" coaches being hauled between two RDCs....
Bevis, Check out Chuck Crouse's "Budd Car, The RDC Story", pages 220 thru 222. In particular, note the Rock Island RDC 3 pulling a stainless observation ...
... Unfortunately I don't have that book. Seems I can't get it from the usual sources either since it's out of print. If anyone out there knows of a store...
It was common practice on some roads for RDCs to pull other cars once their warranty periods had expired...... Dave [Non-text portions of this message have...
I can attest to the fact that the C&EI pulled a coach behind a single RDC1 right from the beginning. The tow car consist replaced the Meadowlark. It went from...
Hi, pulling anything with an RDC voided the warranty from Budd. This was the reason they made the RDC-9's for the Boston and Maine [Non-text portions of this...
The C&O ran 2 modified RDC-3s (passenger seats removed)separated by a heavyweight baggage car poss. modernized w/ roller bearings)as a mail storage car along...
... storage car along the Big Sandy River to Pikeville, KY. This is a water level grade. I believe that this was done after the warrenty had expired... since...
The C&O cars used on the Big Sandy were RDC-4's. They were acquired from the Minneapolis & St. Louis in exchange for 32 open hoppers. The entire run was from...
Hello everyone, I'm looking for the prices railways paid for RDCs when new, and some current prices to compare. I'm asking for my friend Donald Thompson who ...
Bevis, Watch for the Crouse book on eBay. It shows up there in both hardback and paperback versions fairly regularly. Paul [Non-text portions of this message...
I seem to remember hearing a figure of $167,000 each. As far as a rebuild, rebuilt to what degree? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Just a note...RDC's built after 1956(phase 2 RDC's) had 600 hp and VIA Rail's rebuilt RDC's have 800 hp. Tyler gmbadd@... wrote: Wow, that's a lot to pull...
An article in TRAINS magazine, May 1955, gave these base prices: RDC-1: $161,950 RDC-2: $160,800 RDC-3: $162,350 RDC-4: $160,050 All US dollars of course,...
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