About 20 years ago they were still using them in the Dallas area on the DART and the Trinity Railway Express. My brother used them to commute to work and back. Here is a video someone took of the TRE operation.
Some background information on the 13 RDCs that the Dallas Area Rapid Transit had for a while. They just donated one to the Museum of the American Railroad in Frisco, Texas. https://www.historictrains.org/news/last-dart-rdc-joins-museum-collection
No, not really. As an IT Guy myself we are only an error message away from going postal on the computers ourselves. So seeing someone who is not an IT person doing this is perfectly normal.
As another IT guy here, the main reason that computers work better (eventually) for me is that they know I think of computers as binary...they either work or they don't and if they don't I can't break it any worse, so they better start working or I'm the one smashing them against the floor. SP 10: Built in June 1953, delivered to the SP March 1954 - last run April 30th 1971. Prior to entering service SP added pilots and train number indicators (aka ears) at each end. Started service as the Governor running from Sacramento to Oakland. On March 30th 1959, it was leased to the Northwestern Pacific where it operated as The Redwood from Tiburon to Eureka. Before it went to the NWP, SP rebuilt one end to have mail and express service reducing the seating to 68 from the original 90 (although the exterior remained almost unaltered). On October 7th 1960, it had a dispute with a logging truck while at Fort Seward damaging the mail/express end. When it was repaired, it was given a totally unique rear end. The controls were removed making the RDC only able to be run in one direction, but the SP kept its beauty by repairing the damaged end so it now looked like this: After Amtrak took over passenger service in 1971, SP10 was sold to the Oregon, Pacific, & Eastern. In 1978, when it was on display at the Center for Transportation and Commerce (CT&C) in Galveston, Texas. It suffered severe damage when during a hurricane it was flooded (with salt water) and was feared that it would be scrapped. However, it has now been moved back to California and is going to be restored and (hopefully) displayed at the SP Railroad History Center, to be built in Rocklin, CA. It is currently being kept in hiding in Woodland, CA until it can be restored.
Finally got over to the Rapido website to look at the official announcement... Roadnames in Alphabetical Order: Amtrak, ATSF, B&O, B&M, British Columbia, CN, CP, Metro-North, NH, NYC, Reading, SP, VIA, plus undecorated (really painted/unlettered). Price: DC only, $142.45 US; DCC/Sound, $246.95. It's not clear (to me, anyway) whether the 5 percent discount mentioned for the conditional pre-order is included in this price. It is a conditional pre-order, which means if they don't get enough quantities, it won't be made. I suppose if I sell all of my Kato RDCs I might be able to buy one of the sound equipped ones... I suspect the aftermarket for the Kato units will decline given this announcement. Or may increase if the run winds up being cancelled...
From another network we have this... https://www.railwayage.com/passenger/remembering-the-budd-rdc/?RAchannel=news Should be OK to view for a while, then might go behind a paywall.
And there's this video about a rather heavily, ahem, "decorated" MBTA former B&M RDC going away for a cleanup and then display at the MBTA's new dispatching center at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica, Massachusetts. Better than being scrapped! Note: If YouTube doesn't like your ad blocker, view in a private (Firefox) or incognito (Chrome) or similar window.
As least on Windows, if you right click and Print to PDF, the generated file is nicely formatted for a reference copy.
The format might be nice for the purpose, but the article itself has a few too many errors to suit. One diesel under the floor of all units, with the RDC-9 powerplant coincidentally exactly half as powerful as the ones used on the other models at the time? Uh, no...
