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CN 998 is heading towards the Port of Montreal as it tests the Wharf Spur. CN 1501 is leading and CN 4777 is pushing as it passes a Canada Post facility in Pointe St-Charles.
Two of the Reading & Northern’s RDC’s climb Hometown Hill at Nesquehoning Tunnel. Safe to say that any nearby mosquitos would not be any concern to us after they went by. 10-24-21
Inspection train CN 998 is passing some tank cars on the Henri-Bourassa Spur in East End Montreal. It would test a couple of spurs around here before heading north to Garneau Yard.
Test train CN 1501 and VIA 26 are going in opposite directions in the rain. CN 1501 is heading west and testing the Freight Track, while VIA 26 is on its way to Montreal's Central Station.
Two of the Reading & Northern’s RDC’s climb Hometown Hill at Nesquehoning Tunnel. Safe to say that any nearby mosquitos would not be any concern to us after they went by. 10-24-21
RDC-2 VIA 6208 has been completely stripped after undergoing what I believe is a tear-down examination at CAD. VIA Rail was mandated by a Transport Canada order released on October 19th of last year to do a number of tests on stainless steel cars.
After not running during 2014 or 2015 (because their dome car caught fire), the Orford Express has been running this summer. I finally got a chance to shoot it today at a classic location (the Eastman trestle) for the first time since 2013. Here the train is reflected in Lac d'Argent with FL9 OEXX 484 leading a 3 car train westwards over the trestle. In a minute the crew will change ends and the train will head east towards Sherbrooke.
CN's test RDC is something I had been trying to shoot for years, but the timing had never worked out. This past Friday I was finally able to shoot it leaving Pointe St-Charles Yard in the morning, on its way to testing the Montreal Sub (the slightly elevated tracks in the background). Behind the Montreal Sub are some MGLX cars at Ray-Mont Logistics. Behind that is the skyline of downtown Montreal, one railway-related building is the Marriott Château Champlain hotel at left, built by CP across the street from its then headquarters of Windsor Station and opened to the public in 1967.
CN's test train leaving the Port of Montreal with CN 4787 leading CN 1501. Up ahead an REM train passes
CNs Track Evaluation Car 1501 heads south to Cedar Rapids to flip back north and scan the CR sub before heading to Waterloo.
Preserved equipment around the turntable at Exporail. The turntable was used by CP at St-Lin before being donated to the museum.
After testing the CN Longue-Pointe Spur, CN 998 is heading back to the main line. It is passing a Suncor refinery in East end Montreal.
CN 1501 is testing the CN Henri-Bourassa Spur in East End Montreal. A rail-served client (XTL) is across the street.
Around 2 hours late due to CP traffic in the way. VIA 186 has finally made an appearance at Chapleau for it's station stop. The strange track arrangement here is due to the old fuel pad being removed.
While CN's test RDC can run on its own, for unknown reasons it has often run with a locomotive this year and last year. Here CN 999 tests the North Track of CN's Montreal Sub as it heads west (note the red laser visible at far right) with CN 4777 leading CN 1501.
An 8-axle train passes a 784-axle train as test train CN 999 with CN 4777 and CN 1501 passes parked potash train CN 731.
After testing the CN Longue-Pointe Spur, CN 998 is heading back to the main line. It is passing a Suncor refinery in East end Montreal.
C'est le dernier aller-retour de la journée pour l'autorail RDC BC-21, il rentrera sous peu au garage.
This is the last round trip of the day for the RDC BC-21 railcar, it will return to the shop shortly.
After testing the CN Longue-Pointe Spur, CN 998 is heading back to the main line. It is passing a Suncor refinery in East end Montreal.
CN 1501 is testing CN's Industrial Lead in Montreal, which branches off of the Henri-Bourassa Spur. This end of the Lead actually does not serve clients anymore. CN serves Windsor Canadian Salt on the Anjour Spur off of the Lead a bit north of there.
Two of the companies Budd-built RDCs (Rail Diesel Cars) head north for Jim Thorpe shortly after departing Port Clinton. Among the things that make the Reading & Northern more unique among short lines, this has got to be up there. The company is the only railroad in the country (at least one that isn’t a heritage or museum) that regularly operates RDC trips for the public throughout the year. 10-23-21
CN 1501 is testing CN's Industrial Lead in Montreal, which branches off of the Henri-Bourassa Spur. This end of the Lead actually does not serve clients anymore. CN serves Windsor Canadian Salt on the Anjour Spur off of the Lead a bit north of there.
The Budd RDCs on their return from Jim Thorpe to Pottsville approach the Tippets Road crossing. 30th October 2022.
BC Rail's "Cariboo Dayliner" with BC-30 leading 3 other Budd RDCs preparing to depart Lillooet in British Columbia, May 23, 1988.
I rode the train up the Fraser River Canyon from Vancouver to Lillooet and return. Despite the dreadful weather, it was a most auspicious day, as on this trip were Railfan & Railroad's Mike Del Vecchio and the late Jim Boyd.
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GP9 CSRX 1751 (in a NYC-inspired paint scheme) is at the head end of a freight extra during Railfans Weekend in 2014. It is under a ball signal which is preserved in the North Conway Yard. To the left near the roundhouse is RDC-1 CSRX 23 and GP7 CSRX 573.
A four car Budd train of RDCs has just pulled away from the stop at Elkridge MD sometime in March 1990. The overpass carries Interstate 895-the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel Thruway- over the CSXT main, US Rte 1, and the Patapsco River. The famous Thomas Viaduct is directly behind me here.
Fujicolor 400, Pentax K1000
The Orford Express has just left Sherbrooke Station after allowing passengers to detrain and visit the market in the ex-CP station. It is westbound and headed for Orford's Express new base in Magog (previously it was based out of Sherbrooke).
Après une journée d'allers-retours pour le plaisir des touristes, le chef de train est visible derrière l'autorail en train de fermer la grille du Musée. L'automoteur rentrera pour la nuit dans les anciens ateliers du BC Rail.
After a day of going back and forth for the pleasure of tourists, the conductor is visible behind the RDC closing the Museum gate. The railcar will return for the night to the former BC Rail shops.
CSRX 23, Conway Scenic's sole Budd RDC, will soon back up to the passenger platform to board passengers for a passenger extra to Conway on the second afternoon of the Railfans Weekend. it is flying white flags to denote that it is an extra train.
Two weeks before the service ended, the Budd RDCs of the Lewis and Clark Explorer train arrive at Astoria, Oregon. The RDCs are passing the Astoria Riverfront Trolley, which is running on an adjacent track dedicated to trolley use. The passenger service was operated by Portland & Western on weekends from 2003 to 2005 as part of the Lewis & Clark Expedition bicentennial celebration.
Once upon a time, the water in the foreground was Astoria Plywood's log pond. Until it closed in the early 90s, the plywood mill was the last freight shipper in Astoria. After the mill was removed, the property was redeveloped for housing and commercial uses.
PNWR acquired the Astoria Line from BNSF in 1997. It never ran any revenue freight west of the big pulp mill at Wauna, 26 rail miles east of Astoria. The RDC operation was the last rail movement into Astoria. Since then, the Astoria Line has been out of service west of Wauna.
After testing the CN Longue-Pointe Spur, CN 998 is heading back to the main line. It is passing a Suncor refinery in East end Montreal.
RDC-1 CP 9069 is surrounded by AMT 827 at left and ex-GO Transit coach AMT 1101 at right at Exporail just at the end of a massive snowstorm. At the right in the distance are a number of locomotives.
On a fine spring day at Wheeler, Oregon, RDC 553 takes siding for a westbound passenger excursion that has crossed the Coast Range. In the early 1990s, the Port of Tillamook Bay was as good a recreational railroad as you could find.
The Vancouver-bound Caribou Dayliner comprising 4 Budd RDCs, skirts Seton Lake on May 23, 1988.
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CN 1501 is testing the CN Henri-Bourassa Spur in East End Montreal. 'LOOK LISTEN LIVE'' it says in French on a crossing leading to an AIM facility. They are served by CN.
Test car looking for out of gage bumps and profile. Rolling North on the Cedar River RR The CN's Osage Sub.
RDC-1 CSRX 23 and GP7 CSRX 573 sit near the roundhouse at North Conway during the 2014 Railfans Weekend at the Conway Scenic Railroad.
Preserved at Exporail, CP 9250 is an RDC-4, built only for hauling mail and baggage and no passengers.
A Budd RDC-1 off the Central Railroad of New Jersey rolls along the Oregon Coast at Manhattan Beach. This was on the Port of Tillamook Bay Railroad, the former Southern Pacific Tillamook Branch. Operating as the Oregon Coast Explorer, the Budd car hauled tourists between Garibaldi and Wheeler.
This was the first RDC I encountered that was running on its own, and not being towed by a locomotive. As far as I know, there was only one other time that an RDC was operated for passengers in Oregon. Down at Cottage Grove, the Oregon Pacific & Eastern ran the former SP Budd car for several years in the 1970s.
CN's track inspection RDC #1501 rolls north past the venerable old signal guarding the south end of the former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's crossing of the former Pere Marquette in Carleton. This signal, which was old in its own right, replaced an even older signal that was on a remnant of a concrete arch, leftover from DT&I's short-lived experiment with electrification. During this era (early 2010s), CN was still running a pair of trains between Flatrock and Toledo via this line and the Ann Arbor RR at Dianne. Presently, CN runs no trains south of Flatrock on the DT&I, with only Indiana & Ohio's thrice-weekly interchange train from Lima polishing the rails.
Two of the companies Rail Diesel Cars (RDC for short) heading timetable south through Nesquehoning before a pop up shower rains down. Among the unique things about the Reading & Northern, this has got to be most unique of them all. The R&N is the only place in the country where you can ride regularly-scheduled (most weekends throughout the year) trips powered by the companies 3 operable Budd built products.