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From: rubin@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Mike Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Budd RDC's Anywhere
Message-ID: <6839@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 19:55:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  6 19:55:16 1986
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> Does anyone know of any RDCs that are still running anywhere on the North
> American continent?

The far northern ends of various Metro-North lines out of New York
make you change to RDC's (at midday -- usually there are through
diesels during rush hour).  These are new cars, about 5 years old; the
stuff they replaced looked (and smelled) like 1950's coaches with
1950's bus engines mounted underneath, and had neither been painted
nor washed in decades (I seem to remember New York Central paint).

The runs are Harlem Line from Brewster North up to Dover Plains,
Hudson Line from Peekskill to Poughkeepsie, and one of the branches
(Danbury?) off the New Haven Line.  Each of these is around a
45-minute ride after an hour or two on the boring electric M-1's.
Peekskill to Poughkeepsie is probably your best bet; from there you
can continue on Amtrak up to Albany, or Montreal on the Adirondack.