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PHOTOS: RDC Time!

Posted by kp5308 on Mon Jun 4 22:03:14 2018

Last weekend the Reading & Northern started the RDC service from Reading PA to Jim Thorpe. For the schedule click HERE. The passenger department pulled about 120,000 fares total last year. This service along with the station project were the major reasons for the uptick. Loading from the parking lot at Reading on Sunday:


The October fall foliage trains load from the cinder platform at the main line level on the track where this SD40-2 set sits:


Coming & going views on the curve at Hamburg PA:



After picking up passengers at RBMN headquarters to fill out the train, the shining Budds pass under PA Route 61 at Molino:


Sometime in April 2017 an RDC1 was purchased from the Southern Railroad of New Jersey and reconditioned by the RBMN shop forces over the winter to handle the demand for seats. The biggest issue was the #2 motor which was swapped out for a completely re-manufactured one. The 9167 sits at "PC" on Sunday after making a shakedown run from Reading to Schuylkill Haven & return Saturday. Only a few minor problems were discovered. The GP30 rebuild in the background will be powering the Jim Thorpe-Homewood Bridge turns this summer:

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