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Re: Budd RDC in Portland commuter service |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Feb 1 04:09:26 2012, in response to Re: Budd RDC in Portland commuter service, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Feb 1 03:49:21 2012. I know RDC's well, and got to run a few. RDC's were great cars, but they required a LOT of maintenance and if you suffered "transmission stall" they were toast until the transmissions could be rebuilt. There's good reason why railroads wanted to get rid of them when better options were available. They were expensive, difficult to operate and very costly on repairs.There aren't many other options for the cost Portland laid out for these, and they got a good price for what they got indeed. But as mainstays of running a railroad, they're a poor choice. As "spares" it would seem a good choice for the price they paid. Not much more than that. Don't get me wrong, I love RDC's for my own personal nostalgia for them, but they're not really a good choice for anything more than "substitutes." |
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