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From: frank@dvm.UUCP (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Budd RDC's Anywhere
Message-ID: <6@dvm.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Nov-86 11:01:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  4 11:01:41 1986
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Reply-To: frank@dvm.UUCP (Frank Wortner)
Organization: Philon, Inc. (NY, NY)
Lines: 32
Keywords: Budd, RDC

Metro-North Commuter Railroad still runs RDCs in the suburbs around
New York City.  You can hop a train from Grand Central Terminal
(worth a visit in itself -- the largest railroad station in the
world) and scoot on up to the end of third rail country on the Harlem
Line, where an RDC will be waiting to take you to the end of the line
at Dover Plains.

To quote a Metro-North handout:

	"The Budd Company Rail Diesel Cars (RDC), self-propelled
passenger cars, carry two Detroit diesel engines.  Built between 1950
and 1953, the RDCs were owned by both the New York Central Railroad
and the New Haven Railroad and wer used on low density routes, such
as Boston to Albany, and on the New Haven Branch lines.  Today Metro-
North runs them, usually as single units, between Brewster and Dover
Plains on the uppermost part of the Harlem line and between Suffern
and Port Jervis west of the Hudson River."

Come on up to New York if you want to go dinosaur hunting!


			Frank Wortner

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