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No, its not a push-pull
Title:  No, its not a push-pull
Description:  Despite the appearance3 the RDC on the end of the train will not be acting as a cab car on todays Maple Festival train. The honor of leading will fall to 2-8-2 142, which will couple on shortly.
Photo Date:  3/27/1993  Upload Date: 1/17/2018 5:04:50 AM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW M1(RDC1)
Views:  526   Comments: 0
Passenger consist
Title:  Passenger consist
Description:  The Maple Festival consists sits in the Cortland station as 142 gets ready for the days trips. The tower behind the second car is a crossing watchman's tower. The one farther back is the tower on the passenger station.
Photo Date:  3/27/1993  Upload Date: 1/28/2015 3:33:06 AM
Location:  Cortland, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NYSW M1(RDC1)
Views:  428   Comments: 0
Headed back to the Orange
Title:  Headed back to the Orange
Description:  Thats Syracuse University. NYSW ran a shuttle from the university to Carousel Mall for a time in the late 90s using RDCs such as this one.
Photo Date:  11/14/1995  Upload Date: 8/4/2014 1:31:18 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Carousel M, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Night,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  NYSW M5(RDC1)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
RDC shuttle
Title:  RDC shuttle
Description:  The Waterbury trains have been, during my experience, a shuttle from Bridgeport. In 1981, the run was covered by a variety of RDCs, including this one of New Haven heritage-check the name board-now an Amtrak car. It sits during its layover at Waterbury, waiting for the trip back to the main line.
Photo Date:  5/21/1981  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 3:11:31 AM
Location:  Waterbury, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 18(RDC1)
Views:  875   Comments: 1
Waterbury shuttle
Title:  Waterbury shuttle
Description:  The RDC that holds down the Waterbury shuttle arrives at the Bridgeport station.
Photo Date:  5/21/1981  Upload Date: 1/26/2013 3:14:28 AM
Location:  Bridgeport, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 18(RDC1)
Views:  954   Comments: 0
Its here
Title:  Its here
Description:  The connection from Dover Plains is arriving next to the New York train. Once the connection is made, the FL 9 hauled train will start {he 52 mile trip to Grand#Central.
Photo Date:  2/15/1978  Upload Date: 12/5/2016 3:27:20 AM
Location:  Brewster, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett0
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1)
Views:  487   Comments: 0
Dover Plains scoot
Title:  Dover Plains scoot
Description:  The Dover Plains runs at this time were held down by RDCs on a connection to the Harlem Line trains from Grand Central at Brewster. This one has just arrived and will be going back as soon as it makes its connection.
Photo Date:  7/5/1981  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 1:22:52 PM
Location:  Brewster, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1)
Views:  759   Comments: 1
Headed for home
Title:  Headed for home
Description:  A big crowd waits on the Harlem Line train to Grand Central as July 4th weekend winds down. Most of the people there just came off the RDC at right, which covered the trip down from Dover Plains. Good thing the guy with the Suburban didn't leave his driver's side door open!!
Photo Date:  7/5/1981  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 2:57:11 PM
Location:  Brewster, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1) CR 5005(FL9)
Views:  1121   Comments: 2
Connection
Title:  Connection
Description:  The connection to the upper Harlem trains was moved from Brewster to a new station at Brewster North, but the hand off continued as it had for years. An FL 9 powered train would come up from Grand Central, passengers for the Dover Plains run would make an across the platform change to an RDC.
Photo Date:  4/16/1982  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:02:41 AM
Location:  Brewster North , NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 5020(FL9) MNCR 19(RDC1)
Views:  964   Comments: 0
Dover Plains shuttle
Title:  Dover Plains shuttle
Description:  Metro North-actually still Conrail under contract to MTA at this point-was using an RDC to protect the schedule north of Brewster to Dover Plains. It was a fun ride if you didnt have to do it every day!!
Photo Date:  4/16/1982  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:05:22 AM
Location:  Brewster North , NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1)
Views:  585   Comments: 0
Making the connection
Title:  Making the connection
Description:  MN 19 meets its Grand Central connection at Brewster
Photo Date:  4/16/1982  Upload Date: 3/3/2013 4:09:37 AM
Location:  Brewster, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 5020(FL9) MNCR 19(RDC1)
Views:  718   Comments: 0
Back when the Main Line was 4 tracks
Title:  Back when the Main Line was 4 tracks
Description:  A shuttle from Port Jervis has arrived at Suffern, still as EL left it with four tracks intact, and is now moving back to the yard just west of the station with its pair of RDCs.
Photo Date:  10/15/1985  Upload Date: 10/11/2014 2:52:09 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1) MNCR 64(RDC1)
Views:  705   Comments: 0
Big bridge
Title:  Big bridge
Description:  I had always wanted to get a train here ever since I first saw this bridge in 1973. It took me a few years to get here, largely due to youth and lack of resources. By then, the EL power was all gone, but I did get RDCs and U34s there, though by then they were NJ Transit. Still a good spot, even today. Thats NY 59 in the foreground.
Photo Date:  10/15/1985  Upload Date: 10/11/2014 2:55:36 AM
Location:  Hillburn, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1) MNCR 64(RDC1)
Views:  608   Comments: 0
Classic Erie signal
Title:  Classic Erie signal
Description:  The Erie signal mast at West OV witnesses the passing of this eastbound train of RDCs about to make its station stop, just after leaving the tunnel in the distance.
Photo Date:  10/15/1985  Upload Date: 10/11/2014 2:58:51 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Tunnel,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1) MNCR 64(RDC1)
Views:  607   Comments: 1
Bare ruined choirs
Title:  Bare ruined choirs
Description:  The shuttle from Suffern stops at the once grand Erie station that has fallen on bad times. Not quite ten years after EL left, it is in disrepair, windows missing or covered with plywood and bricks falling out, holes in the roof. Fate will favor the station, and it will undergo a renovation that will restore its one time elegance.
Photo Date:  10/15/1985  Upload Date: 10/11/2014 3:02:57 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 64(RDC1) MNCR 19(RDC1)
Views:  601   Comments: 0
Odd fellows
Title:  Odd fellows
Description:  A pair of RDCs, common equipment covering the mid day runs on the Port Jervis trains, stops at the bus shelter station at Otisville.
Photo Date:  10/15/1985  Upload Date: 10/7/2014 2:31:16 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1) MNCR 64(RDC1)
Views:  579   Comments: 1
De Profundis
Title:  De Profundis
Description:  Out of the deep, in this case the Otisville tunnel. A pair of RDCs covering the mid day train from Port Jervis to Suffern exit the tunnel and will shortly make their Otisville stop.
Photo Date:  10/15/1985  Upload Date: 10/7/2014 2:34:59 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Tunnel,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1) MNCR 64(RDC1)
Views:  568   Comments: 1
Getting underway
Title:  Getting underway
Description:  A pair of RDCs on the Port Jervis to Suffern run roll past the distant signal for BC while an NJ Trainsit trainset waits out the weekend.
Photo Date:  1/4/1986  Upload Date: 10/16/2014 2:37:25 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 19(RDC1) MNCR 55(RDC1)
Views:  632   Comments: 0
RDC to Norwalk
Title:  RDC to Norwalk
Description:  An RDC, typical for the off peak Danbury service, rolls through Norwalk as it makes its way to South Norwalk and the New Haven Line in fall color. Here it is slowing for a stop at Kent Road.
Photo Date:  11/12/1986  Upload Date: 12/22/2014 3:43:23 AM
Location:  Norwalk, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 40(RDC1)
Views:  485   Comments: 2
Night time
Title:  Night time
Description:  The Danbury shuttle waits in the pocket track at S Norwalk for connections.
Photo Date:  11/12/1986  Upload Date: 12/22/2014 3:44:48 AM
Location:  Norwalk, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 40(RDC1)
Views:  374   Comments: 0
Walk on by
Title:  Walk on by
Description:  The Port Jervis scoot rolls past waiting OIBU at West OV. It was not a good afternoon to be OIBU. He got scooped at Campbell Hall by TV 301, then here by Metro North, and would get sacked again at Port Jervis by SLN 5.
Photo Date:  10/3/1987  Upload Date: 5/30/2015 3:45:39 AM
Location:  Otisville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 65(RDC1) MNCR 43(RDC1)
Views:  727   Comments: 0
New station
Title:  New station
Description:  The new station at Middletown is on the formerly freight only Graham Line, now handling passenger trains since the original Erie main was abandoned through Chester, Goshen and Middletown. This station is out by the Galleria, just to the north of NY 17. It may be cheaper to run, but has none of the elegance of the station it replaced, which is now a library. We see a mid day run from Suffern pausing on its way to Port Jervis with a pair of RDCs, the lead car a former NYC Beeliner. Note the railfan chase vehicle to the left of the train.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:05:53 PM
Location:  Middletown, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 53(RDC1) MNCR 61(RDC1)
Views:  713   Comments: 0
RDCs to Suffern
Title:  RDCs to Suffern
Description:  After Conrail abandoned the Erie main through Goshen and Chester, MTA built stations to accomodate trains running on the new rouite, via the Graham Line and Moodna Viaduct. Harriman also got a new station east of Newburgh Jct, as the old one was on the Erie main just west of NJ. Here a pair of RDCs of NYC heritage make their stop with an afternoon shuttle that will connect with a Hoboken train at Suffern.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/6/2014 2:44:06 AM
Location:  Harriman, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 61(RDC1) MNCR 53(RDC1)
Views:  628   Comments: 0
End of the line
Title:  End of the line
Description:  Or at least as far as this train will go. The pair of RDCs I shot at Middletown has arrived at Port Jervis and waits for time to head back to Suffern and a Hoboken connection.
Photo Date:  7/22/1986  Upload Date: 12/3/2014 3:07:20 PM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  MNCR 61(RDC1) MNCR 53(RDC1)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
CP RDC
Title:  CP RDC
Description:  This CP car was one of the more unusual items sitting around at Brownville that day.
Photo Date:  5/29/1988  Upload Date: 3/6/2015 2:44:05 AM
Location:  Brownville Junction, ME
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  CP 90(RDC1)
Views:  985   Comments: 0
View of the bridge
Title:  View of the bridge
Description:  The Erie built several great steel bridges, among them, Kinzua Viaduct in PA, Portage Bridge, one of two bridges on two lines over the Genesee, and the only one over that river still in service; Belfast, the other Genesee River crossing, abandoned after Conrail took over the EL, and dismantled by 1984; and this one, 3200 foot long Moodna Viaduct, which sees commuter trains on a daily basis. This is what it looks like through a very dirty RDC front window. Its a long way across there, and a long way down!!
Photo Date:  1/31/1984  Upload Date: 5/26/2014 5:00:55 AM
Location:  Salisbury Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5185(RDC1) NJT 5189(RDC1)
Views:  658   Comments: 1
Smokin it up
Title:  Smokin it up
Description:  The pair of RDCs that just dropped riders off at Port Jervis smokes hard as it heads for the yard to layover til return time. Thats OIBU to the left.
Photo Date:  1/31/1984  Upload Date: 5/26/2014 5:03:46 AM
Location:  Port Jervis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5185(RDC1) NJT 5189(RDC1)
Views:  542   Comments: 2
Scoot on Moodna
Title:  Scoot on Moodna
Description:  The two car RDC shuttle that covered the mid day Port Jervis run seen on Moodma Viaduct from CR 20. The viaduct dwarfs a stack train; a pair of RDCs is tiny.
Photo Date:  2/7/1984  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:07:19 AM
Location:  Salisbury Mills, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5189(RDC1) NJT 5185(RDC1)
Views:  537   Comments: 1
Not your average EL meet.
Title:  Not your average EL meet.
Description:  RDCs were never part of the EL world-the ones here came from PRSL-so to see then meeting a train of the usual EL equipment here at Suffern, is, well, unusual. Otherwise the shot is classic EL, four track main, station house on the left next to the eastbound platform. Just need a PO Ordinary rolling down the inside track toward Croxton behind a mix of GP 7's and RS 3's.
Photo Date:  2/7/1984  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:15:59 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5185(RDC1) NJT 4163(U34CH)
Views:  479   Comments: 1
Passing SF
Title:  Passing SF
Description:  The RDCs that have just come into town from Port Jervis pass the home signal at SF interlocking that protects the Pascack Valley line, once the original Erie main from Piermont on the Hudson River. SF tower is under the bridge in the background.
Photo Date:  2/7/1984  Upload Date: 5/24/2014 1:17:53 AM
Location:  Suffern, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  NJT 5185(RDC1) NJT 5189(RDC1)
Views:  569   Comments: 0
VIA RDC
Title:  VIA RDC
Description:  An RDC rolls toward Central Station as it comes in for its final stop. The inbound trains did not get electric helpers due to being able to coast downgrade into the station. Seen about to enter the tunnel at Portal Heights.
Photo Date:  8/26/1985  Upload Date: 10/8/2014 3:27:19 AM
Location:  Montreal, QC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6101(RDC1)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
Kitchener train
Title:  Kitchener train
Description:  There are two routes from London to Toronto. The main runs via Hamilton and up the lake shore, while the secondary route takes a more inland route via Kitchener. Those schedules were covered by trains of RDCs. This one is just in from Toronto.
Photo Date:  8/27/1982  Upload Date: 3/26/2013 1:15:55 AM
Location:  London, ON
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6114(RDC1)
Views:  657   Comments: 0
Its a T car
Title:  Its a T car
Description:  But we know where it belongs, even with the purple stripe. Ex B&M RDC at North Station
Photo Date:  2/23/1981  Upload Date: 6/4/2014 2:17:39 AM
Location:  Boston, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,RollingStock,Station
Locomotives:  BM 6124(RDC1)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
Coming from the yard
Title:  Coming from the yard
Description:  A set of four RDCs rolls into the Moncton station from the yard. They will be broken up into two singles, and a pair, to cover connections to the Ocean and the Atlantic.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:34:47 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6136(RDC1) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) VIA 6138(RDC1)
Views:  656   Comments: 0
First one to go
Title:  First one to go
Description:  VIA 6138 has been cut from the set of four that just arrived at the station, and will take on passengers for its outlying destination.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:36:25 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6138(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6136(RDC1)
Views:  666   Comments: 0
RDCs and an F 40
Title:  RDCs and an F 40
Description:  The RDCs that will head out to connecting towns sit alongside the set out cars and power for the Ocean.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:41:14 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6431(F40PH-2) VIA 6138(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6136(RDC1)
Views:  600   Comments: 1
Breaking them up
Title:  Breaking them up
Description:  The RDCs that came over from the yard have now been broken up and now are getting ready to take passengers from the Atlantic and the Ocean.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:39:12 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6138(RDC1) VIA 6143(RDC1) VIA 6223(RDC2)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
VIA 6143
Title:  VIA 6143
Description:  One of four RDCs at the station, ready to roll for a main line connection.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/2/2015 1:42:55 AM
Location:  Moncton, NB
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  VIA 6143(RDC1)
Views:  210   Comments: 0
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:  629   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 onf 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:  565   Comments: 0
All kinds of good stuff
Title:  All kinds of good stuff
Description:  This view of the Harrison lay up yard shows some of the variety of equipment that was running out of Newark in the late 70s. Most prominent is CR 4101, a former CNJ unit still in its original owners paint, though renumbered into the CR passenger unit series. To the left of the GP40P is a coach in Great Northern Big Sky blue, one of a fleet of cars acquired from BN at Amtrak start up, and used mostly on the NY & Long Branch, for which that train set became known as the "Bay Head Empire Builder." At right, we see the Reading RDCs used on the Crusader, which had another three years to live at this point. It used the CNJ via the Aldene Connection out to Bound Brook, then onto the Reading for the trip to Philly.
Photo Date:  6/28/1978  Upload Date: 12/4/2016 4:47:27 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  NJDOT 4101(GP40P) RDG 9163(RDC1)
Views:  826   Comments: 1
Crusader
Title:  Crusader
Description:  Ex Reading RDCs held down the two remaining trains covering the service that was once hourly from the CNJ Jersey City terminal to Philadelphia. Now down to two trains each way daily-the Wall Street and the Crusader-they now ran in and out of Penn Station as part of the Aldene plan. This one is on the Crusader, about to launch its trip down the ex LV, CNJ and Reading. These runs would be discontinued shortly after this date, replaced by a train that NJ Transit ran as far as West Trenton.
Photo Date:  4/20/1981  Upload Date: 1/30/2013 1:06:21 AM
Location:  Newark Penn Station, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  RDG 9167(RDC1)
Views:  671   Comments: 1
Ex B&O RDC
Title:  Ex B&O RDC
Description:  The MARC MArtinsburg trains ran with a set of ex B&O RDCs. Heres one of them at Washington Union Station
Photo Date:  7/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/16/2013 4:03:02 AM
Location:  Washington Union Sta, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  MDOT 9802(RDC1)
Views:  614   Comments: 0
Martinsburg bound
Title:  Martinsburg bound
Description:  MARC ran a pair of trains out to Martinsburg WV on the old B&O, using RDCs. One of the trains is making its stop at Rockville on its way into the night.
Photo Date:  10/23/1987  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 2:56:19 AM
Location:  Rockville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MDOT 9805(RDC1)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
Smoke in the twilight
Title:  Smoke in the twilight
Description:  The RDCs on the Martinsburg train were getting on in years, and showed it. They had a tendency to smoke when starting, as this set shows leaving Rockville, already gaining enough speed to blur the shot.
Photo Date:  10/23/1987  Upload Date: 6/12/2015 2:57:50 AM
Location:  Rockville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MDOT 9805(RDC1)
Views:  238   Comments: 0


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