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5/4/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Via Rail Canada
Model:Budd RDC1Built As:CP 9114 (RDC2)
Serial Number:6609Order No:
Frame Number:Built:2/1957
Notes:ex-CP RDC5 9305, nee-CP RDC2 9
Other locos with this serial:  VIA 6148(RDC1)
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Electric help
Title:  Electric help
Description:  CN rostered several motors to pull trains through the Mont Royal tunnel going out-inbound trains just coasted through-even RDCs. This one is assisted by one of the two steeple cab units built in 1950.
Photo Date:  9/7/1987  Upload Date: 5/27/2015 3:59:25 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Tunnel,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CN 6727(Z-5-A) VIA 6148(RDC1)
Views:  520   Comments: 1
Getting a hand
Title:  Getting a hand
Description:  This VIA RDC has been getting a pull uphill from downtown on its first leg out to Jct de lest by one of CNs motors, as all diesel powered trains do. We see it passing Portal Heights station.
Photo Date:  9/7/1987  Upload Date: 5/27/2015 4:07:43 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CN 6727(Z-5-A) VIA 6148(RDC1)
Views:  459   Comments: 0


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