Rails Around the World by Brian Solomon

Author:Brian Solomon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Motorbooks
Published: 2020-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

After an early January snow in 1987, Metro-North RDC No. 47, inherited from New Haven Railroad via Conrail, works old home rails in the Naugatuck Valley near Beacon Falls, Connecticut, on its way from Waterbury to Bridgeport. Brian Solomon

A Long Island Rail Road RDC glistens in the afternoon sun at the far eastern reaches of the railroad’s passenger network at Montauk, New York, in May 1960. Richard Jay Solomon

As railroads scaled back and eliminated many passenger routes in the late 1960s and 1970s, the number of RDC runs declined, yet some of the cars found continued work for Amtrak, which inherited most remaining US long-distance services in 1971. In the 1970s, commuter rail agencies and other passenger operators inherited fleets of RDCs, and these included Boston-based Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, New York–area Metro-North, Baltimore-based MARC, and Philadelphia-centered SEPTA, as well as Canada’s passenger operator VIA Rail, created in the late 1970s to assume operations of Canadian National and Canadian Pacific.

Some cars operated for more than sixty years in regular service, and a few RDCs survive today on heritage railroads, including the Berkshire Scenic in Massachusetts, New Hampshire’s Conway Scenic and Hobo Railroads, and Pennsylvania’s Reading Northern, a freight carrier that runs classic railroad excursions.

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