Via Rail discontinued passenger service to my home town of Peterborough in 1989, and I'm like 90 percent sure the last train out was an RDC.

Awesome video! The set of RDCs that were rebuilt were bought from the DART by AllEarth, and are expected to see commuter service in Northern Vermont within the next year. There are two in St. Albans, VT, and another ten in Barre, VT. They will be on a VRS dinner train out of Burlington, VT in November, to show the public the qualities of the RDC. Once in service, I'll try to get as much footage of them as possible, as I'm a fan of the RDCs as well

Worth noting that BC Rail (formerly Pacific Great Eastern) used RDC 1s and 3s for their Vancouver-Prince George passenger service from 1956-2002

The VIA RDC's were rebuilt with higher horsepower Cummins engines in the 80's apart from 6133-34 which kept their GM engines.

What kind of person thinks “Lets put jet engines on this train just because we can”

RDCs are in use on a commuter line on a G&W line In Portland OR. It's called the WES and it's run by trimet

A good number of the RDCs came from the Boston & Maine Railroad.

Portland, OR's TriMet system has been buying Budd RDCs from Alaska Railroad to supplement the Colorado Railcar DMUs on their Westside Express line.

I lived in Sudbury ON for 6 years and took the VIA RDC from Sudbury to White River, ON. Scenery was amazing. STRONGLY recommend this trip.

I am convinced that "Le Petit Train du Nord" in Québec was RDC's. I rode on then several with as a teenager to go camping with friends up North. I tried to find videos of it but could not.

Man I've watched this series millions of times, and it never gets old. Even 2 years later. Love your work man

Thank you for the nice video and all of your hard work! I'm glad you have taken an interest in these cars as I do think they are significant in railroading history.

1:25 that GTW one looks suspiciously CN to me...

Nice work Buddy! I loved RDCs back in the 60s watching them go through Palmerston On. to Toronto, Kincardine, Stratford, Southampton and Owen Sound. Cheerz

A few years back, I spotted a handful of RDCs sitting in the Belleville Ont. yard. The things you come across when you have no camera!

Great videos, enjoying these Engine of VIA segments. Glad I came across your channel! - ECR

Thanks for the montage. You should note that CN is not a government company, as you stated in your video. Its 100% privately owned, but publicly traded on the stock market.

Back in the 60's I had the opportunitiy to ride a CNR RDC in the Ottawa Valley into Ottawa. Amazing memory! Thanks for putting this together, there almost extinct.

I was present for the NYC M497 jet RDC runs as a young child! I can still remember the RDC blasting through as it was still gaining speed! I later met the engineer who help design and drove it.

HiGood video.In the years 85, I worked for the company Cummins to Pointe-Claire. In these years, VIA Rail made a major change on engines. Of the original series GM 110 (330 HP), they changed for a NTC 340. (340 HP) Coupled with an automatic transmission 4 or 5 speeds, made by Twin Ind. I have myself make tests on all the engines which had to find themselves on all Budd of VIA. No information about this on Internet.

It is Allearth rail in Vermont that ended up purchasing the 16 RDC' s that VIA was bidding on. They plan to run them in around the Burlington area and west on Vermont Rail System track.

Awesome video! Just subscribed. I love the RDC's

TriMet in the Portland, Oregon area has several RDCs, some former Alaska Railroad and some former Trinity Rail Express. Rapido Trains, Inc owns two former VIA Rail RDCs, 6133 and 6215

I had a conversation about RDCs last night with another fan. Apparently New Haven had the most, with Boston and Maine probably second (they replaced their entire passenger service with RDCs in the 1950's!). When Massachusetts' MBTA took over the B&M commuter operations they eventually "neutered" their Budd cars, removing the engines and the exhaust/radiator "hump", making coaches out of them. They ran that way into the early 1990's when "The T" got new equipment and many of them became the first passenger cars for Virginia's VRE commuter operation for several years. Then many of them were sold to a startup commuter operation in Texas (Dallas maybe?). They may still be operating as coaches somewhere. After all, Budd stainless coaches are virtually indestructible if taken care of properly. There was one other type of RDC you probably didn't know about. The B&O had two RDCs that were food service table cars (I think Nos. 1960 and 1961) for service between Washington, DC and Pittsburgh, PA. By the end of the 1950's, the B&O had converted that service totally to RDCs (called "Speedliners"). One of those table RDCs is/was owned by the B&O Museum in Baltimore and was used for many years as their snack bar. I don't know if that is still true. The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad between Cleveland and Akron, OH rosters around 3 RDCs, and recently converted one to being a charter executive/business/meeting car.

The restored RDCs in the U.S. are on the Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad. I've ridden them and it's a class II line. They also have multiple steam locomotives and run regular excursions which I've also ridden.

buddy good job on the series!

Great video! Well done.

Hey in scranton Pennsylvania USA there is an old alco pa VIA rail waiting for restoration

Rapido Trains now owns an RDC From VIA Rail! (VIA 6133)

Greetings from Brazil. Used to ride these RDCs as a sort of intercity bus. We still have a couple around in tourist trains, one in Curitiba-Paranaguá grade, another one in Rio de Janeiro. The RJ one looks more like the vanilla Budds, the ones I used to ride were built under license and look quite different.

Alaska RR is a "government railroad" and it ran RDC years ago.

Took a Budd RDC tour car on Victoria Island about 20 years ago. It ran north about 2 hrs on a slow speed ride, stopping at points of interest and for fawns on the track. This was one great day tour; don't know if it still runs.

AWESOME VIDEO, AS PER USUAL. Conway Scenic owns one called the Millie

The railroad in the U.S. your talking about is Reading Blue Mountain and Northern in northeastern Pennsylvania which is a Class II regional railroad, not a Class III shortline! I railfan them and seen their RDCs.

Great video and really informative series

VIA sold its remaining non working RDCs that were in storage at Mimico. 6 went to Rapido and 4 went to St.Jacobs RR. Rapido already has a restored RDC in its roster and will make several of the ones purchased operational as funding permits. There is lots of posts on all this youtube..

Love these videos!

Every major company ran RDC, because they were trying to cut costs on low revenue routes. The companies in question were actually trying to end passenger service altogether; then consumer protections stepped in and said, you can't just abandon all those passengers who came to rely on you. So after years of the companies complaining about lost revenue; the government stepped in and took over those money-losing routes, and actually made them profitable, by onsolidated them all together.

This video was uploaded before my birthday

I saw all 7 budd RDC's in late 2019 and an old Via coach.

WE NEED HORNS! The horns are definitely the best part of trains. Unless it’s the best sounding engine you’ve ever heard.

I have an ho scale rdc Budd car in the Boston and Maine livery

I have a video of the VIA RDCs in Halifax NS & got onboard them.

America: let’s put rockets on our passenger train Russia: *LETS PUT A JIANT NUCLEAR MISSLE ON OUR PASSENGER TRAIN*

I love them

That GTW RDC is on an undercover mission...

A renewable energy company in Vermont outbid VIA to acquire Trinity Railway Express' ex-VIA Budd cars, with plans to run them between Burlington and Montpelier.

ViaRailFan the Reading and Northern is the company that restored the bud cars in case you are wondering.

The ones we got in Australia were duds and we turned into no powered cars pretty quickly.

I AM FOND OF BUDD RDC SERIES TRAIN VERY MUCH.STEEL－SILVER SKIN with YELLOW, ORANGE HEAD... looks like TZU CHAING DIESAL trains DR2600 TO DR3100 in TAIWAN.

Thanks.I thought it was in Kentville Nova Scotia at the old roundhouse but I guess not thanks tho

YES WES RDCS

I like the Santa Fe RDC

1:49 I don’t think you realize it, but that’s Portland Oregon’s WES service, running through Gresham, Tigard, etc... NOT VIA Rail.

the company that rebiult the rdc’s was all earth rail

it was Reading & Northern! (RBMN)

The Alaska railroad used Budd RDC.

Scenic railroads with RDC’s Conway Scenic Railroad Cape Cod Central Railroad (Non Operable) Railway Museum of New England TOO MANY TO COUNT!!!

They had RDCs from Amtrak and in new haven

Flattened many coins.

I believe the Short line was The New England Central

I know a passenger service near me the name is DCTA that has RDC

So the RDC-9's were basically railcar B-units, since they had a prime mover but no control cab?

the E&N isnt closed, the service was suspended and service may return

You forgot to mention Rapido owns a preserved VIA RDC

the cab look like the arrowIII for NJT

My favorite RDC is the RDC-3, so I learned MANY things about the RDC. An example is that there are 5 variations of the RDC. And The RDC was INTERNATIONAL and interesting. So the RDC-9 is a b-unit with a prime mover, is that true?

0:32 That's the script for this episode! Don't skip and read it!

If i want to see an RDC. Wes commuter rail has 2 running and 2 more being refurbished.

i saw all 7 of them in toronto

Wow i dendent now they where locomotives

Cough cough Boston and Maine had RDCs

The first time I saw an RDC I thought: dafuq is that thing.

I've seen the cn car, didn't get it on camera.

2:04 - 51.3 metric tonnes.

It’ reminds of a cab car

Could’ve sworn RDC-3s were the ones with baggage... odd.

I only saw r d c s in the yard

Grand trunk never owned a RDC!

O god spongebob music

Reading and northern

1:01 what is that song

Is this a Subway

Can u put a link to the clip at 2:02 please?

You forgot new haven

No they were not G M 110s They were Detroit 110s

Sorry, what were the songs you used?

Not to insult accents but... "Seldom Pacific"

Trinity rail express runs the rdc

TRE has budd rdc-1

5:47

Diesels are NOT motors. Motors are electric or hydraulic. Diesels are ENGINES DAMN IT! Use the correct word.