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From: roma@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Budd RDC's Anywhere
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Date: Fri, 31-Oct-86 15:24:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 31 15:24:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!roma    Oct 31 14:24:00 1986


> Does anyone know of any RDCs that are still running anywhere on the North
> American continent? I would go there on vacation next summer just to be
> able to ride one before they are all gone.

There are a bunch of RDC's in Canada.  I just returned from a vacation that
included time in the Toronto and Montreal areas.  RDC's are used on several
runs between Niagara Falls and Toronto and on scattered runs between Windsor,
and Toronto.  They are also used on runs between Montreal and Quebec city.

Of additional interest in the area are scattered Alco (actually MLW) power,
including FA's, which are at least as rare as RDC's.  LRC's are common in the
Toronto-Montreal and Toronto-Ottawa corridors, as well as on several of the
runs between Windsor and Toronto and Sarnia and Toronto.  (The non-LRC runs
are either RDC's or standard equipment pulled by either FA's, F7's, or CN
freight locomotives.)  Bayview Jct. (featured in the July 1980 issue of TRAINS)
is a good viewing location and is only about 30 miles from Toronto.

Toronto still has an extensive collection of PCC streetcars, supplemented by
a few recently-acquired cars.  There is also Toronto area's GO Transit where
you can find a few F7's.

Montreal has Canada's only stretch of electrified main line railroad, the
CN commuter line through the Mount Royal tunnel to Deux Montagnes, Quebec.
During the day, MU cars are used; during rush hour, 70-year old boxcab
locomotives pull long trains (up to 13 cars) made up of heavyweight coaches of
similar vintage.  (Wow!)

This was a road trip, but I enjoyed myself that I'm planning to go back to
Canada again soon -- this time on the train.

Happy hunting!

Jon Roma
Computing Services Office, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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