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Canadian RDCs to be scrapped
What a waste! How sad!!!
There’s an RDC on exhibit in the St. Louis Museum of Transportation.
I received an E-mail from Jason Sharon from Rapido Trains. In the e-mail he confirmed that he has if fact secured one of these units from this company, and that the one he purchased needs work, but is pretty close to operational as is. He is taking donations to help with first, the cost to move it to a secure location, and then to complete about 25,000 dollars of renovations. More information is available on Rapido Trains web site.
Railway museums should be rescuing these RDC’s. Of course, expenses in transport and handling are beyond their financial capacity.
Why are the RDCs being scrapped? I don’t get it at all.
No takers, Vince - although the article states that IRSI’s owner had hoped there would be a market for refurbished RDC’s, apparently there does not seem to be so. Of course who knows how aggressive he might have been in his efforts to find buyers. Certainly such a waste of very functional equipment …
Nippon Sharyo is building brand new self propelled diesel cars. If customers are buying new there is no market for used.
Short sighed bean counters! Such a waste.
Sad. I logged a lot of miles on NYC and CN RDCs in regular service. I was in Sydney, NS when the last RDC didn’t depart. Protesters had chained themselves to the rails to prevent it leaving. I was also in Saint John, NB when the last southbound RDC arrived. I think that was in 1989. Taking them to college on NYC’s St. Lawrence Division was always a cool (or cold) adventure in the '50s. Much more fun than than getting edumicated. Later, they were tacked on to Harlem Division commuter trains and finished the journey north from WPNS (North White Plains) or Brewster. Other rides were on C&NW (Chicagoland) and CP in Alberta. If I had won the “Powerball”,…
Well, pay some rent for storage until you can get them moved off the property. Scrap steel prices are almost worthless now anyways. Certainty some line or museum can use them in the U.S.
What is individual value of the cars?
North Dakota rail service?
Des Moines rail service?
Las Vegas rail service?
Pueblo rail service?
Nashville rail service?
Richmond, Va – Raleigh, NC rail service via now closed SAL line?
The cost to make new?
This is tragic. At the very least, I sure hope the Detroit Diesel 6-110 prime movers from the scrapped RDCs are being saved. This is now a rather rare engine, and the RDC was its primary role.