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Posted by Avid Reader on Thu Sep 27 18:59:20 2012, in response to Topic For Tuesday Railbus, posted by Avid Reader on Tue Sep 25 17:23:55 2012. So close and then so farRef.600 1951 Mack FCD Railbus (New Haven Railroad #10). In May 1951 Frederick C. Dumaine, Jr. succeeded his father as president of the New Haven Railroad. His business plan included adding passenger runs on lightly used branch lines. In October 1951 Mack Trucks completed its diesel-electric railcar (serial number 1001), christened by Mack as FCD (Frederick C. Dumaine). The car was basically a Mack model C-50 rode on modified Clark B-2 trucks with resilent wheels and employed a 220h.p. Mack diesel engine to drive a General Electric 300-volt generator. In March 1952 car No. 10 made a press run and in April 1952 it was placed in revenue service on the Blackstone commuter run out of Boston. In the following year, the New Haven ordered nine modified FCD railbuses from Mack, which were delivered to the company in summer 1954. In the meantime, in April 1954 Patrick McGinnis won a proxy fight for control of the New Haven. He had no interest in branch line passenger service or railbuses and when the nine FCD-IIs were delivered, eight of them were immediately stored at the Readville, MA shops together with original #10. Only number 12 was put in service and after two years of running between Worcester and Providence it too was stored. In 1962 Mack FCD #10 was sold to Ferrocarril de Langreo of Gijon, Spain together with six railbuses from second batch. Photo: Mack Trucks; New Haven Railroad advertising. Ref.600a 1951 Mack FCD Railbus (Ferro-Carril de Langreo #206; ex-New Haven Railroad, acq. in 1962). In 1962/63, the Ferro-Carril de Langreo, the private Spanish railroad operated in the Gijon area (north-west of Spain), acquired unemployed Mack railbuses from New Haven Railroad, include FCD-1 railbus No.10. The Macks were repainted in the regular FCL dark green color with silver beltrail, FCD-1 railbus was numbered 206; it was withdrawn in late 1970s while other Mack railbuses remained in service until 1983, when the company's tracks were changed to to meter gauge (the Ferro-Carril de Langreo was nationalized in 1972 and then the operation was transferred to FEVE company, which use the meter gauge). One of Mack railbuses of second series, No.203 was preserved at the Museo del Ferrocarril de Asturias (Asturias Railroad Museum) in Gijón. Photographer unknown; photo from C.A.Brown's article in the Shoreliner |
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