History in Motion on the MBTA | Boston Railroading Explained: Budd RDC
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ม.ค. 2024
- On January 6th 2024, the MBTA moved its historic Budd RDC and B&M Milk Car up to Billerica for restoration. Come along as we chase this train up the line!
Enjoy!
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Those Budd railcars looked magnificent . They had style. Glad to see its future will be secure.
I'm glad they moved this equipment before it becomes toast like the other Buddliner.
Growing up, I used to ride these all the time from Bradford to Boston. These trains didn't terminate at Haverhill then and used to come down from New Hampshire and Maine in those days. Later when the Maine trains stopped, they terminated in Haverhill. Bradford used to have a freight yard then too and I used to see the small switcher move freight down the Georgetown Branch to Haverhill Paperboard.
It's funny how we take things for granted. All of this is gone now. The yard is a parking lot and a couple of tracks and the branch is a rail trail.
Wow! What a story. Super cool how things have changed, especially around Bradford. I had no clue there was a yard there before
Were these the cars that the seat backs could be moved to face the other way? I was disappointed that couldn't be done anymore when I took a train a few years ago into Boston from Gloucester.
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Yes, they were! It is too bad the "T" got rid of those seats. I remember the conductor going along through the RDCs flipping the seats that no one was sitting in to the opposite direction for the return trip.
Here's something that was told to me by my dad a number of years ago.
To go back to the mid-1950s before I was born, my grandfather, uncle, dad, and piano teacher used to commute to Boston together from Bradford. The conductor would let them reverse one of the seats so they could sit together during the evening commute. At some point during the trip, he would take out a card table he had stored away for them to play together on the way home. In the 1970s, we moved to Andover. Living up the street from us was a retired B&M passenger train conductor. He was the same conductor that used to put out the table for them to play cards!
Small world.
Yeah, there was a nice little yard there in Bradford. A small switcher was stationed there and the old station had a dispatcher's office on the west side (towards Lawrence) of the station. I grew up on Front Street that overlooked the yard. My dad (a closet railfan) used to take me across the street to the white fence near the slope to watch the trains pass by. Growing up, we took the train into Boston and then the rest of the "T" elsewhere including to Cambridge where my grandmother lived and down to Children's Hospital on Longwood Avenue. When I was older, my dad used to take me to work with him and I used to look out the window and watch the city below. One day during a commute, we road on one of the rare Dallas PCC trolleys with a disabled rear driver's controls. I was quite young then and didn't realize the significance of that. It was this experience that hooked me to the rails. 🙂
I was visiting my cousin in Needham when one of these went by above the field we were flying a kite in. That was probably 1968ish. I've never forgotten that day (obviously).
Great video! Thanks!
Nice job kids. Great chase!
Thanks!
Thanks for posting . Budd made a good product . I had the pleasure of riding the RDCs on the Reading Railroad in PA.
I remember seeing these budds parked outside North Station when I ventured down to Boston from Canada to witness the last Dual Modes on the silver line before retirement...
Glad to see at least one is escaping its time in purgatory
Thats so cool! Me too, they needed to be saved
When I 13 and my dad was stationed at Fort Devens. The Budds cars were pulled by the F-7S and the F-9s and they were getting phased out.
Wow does this bring back memories! When I was young, every year at Christmas my brother, father, grandfather, and I would travel into Boston for a holiday lunch, riding RDCs on this same line. I may well have ridden that very car!
Great Video! Glad it’s being restored
Great to meet you guys. This Summer for the first time ever Bostons MBTA Commuter trains are finally coming to the towns in South Massachusetts I grew up between. Fall River and New Bedford. MBTA calls this project “South Coast Rail”. The lines were supposed to open in late 2023. But not a lot of the stations were completed in time. So hopefully by summer service will start. Passenger trains from Fall River to Boston have been announced several times, but never came to fruition. So happy it’s finally happening. The 2 lines from Fall River and New Bedford will eventually join the current Middleborough/Lakeville line and continue North to Boston South Station.
Awesome coverage of this video. Wish I could be there. It's exciting and relaxing at the same time
Really happy for you guys!
Hi great video. Cool red caboose. I like to see cabooses at the end of freight trains just at the state borders for long hauls. As far as i know freight trains in Boston Massachusetts still have cabooses. 😊
I was wondering what happened to those cars, I've been looking at them for years. Glad one is being saved. You also answered my question why there is a short section of track next to track ten in North Station, where the crews rest.
There recently was placed on display a Budd RDC, sitting on its own set of display tracks (just off of the actual R-O-W, now a Rail-Trail) at the Troy, NH Depot, it supposedly coming from the Vermont Railway (supposedly sat in storage at the very end of remaining Cheshire Branch trackage). Currently, this RDC appears to be a rough shape, albeit, better locking than this one.
Wow! This is exactly what I needed! Thanks for posting this! This video is so helpful!
Love this! I was lucky to catch this train at Pond st, in Billerica! I was the one in the blue flannel
Hey, cool! I think I got you in that video in the end haha
Thanks for documenting this historic move! I’ve always wondered about those Budd cars, and I never knew about the fire!
Im glad you learned something + enjoyed!
I recall seeing an old MBTA coach car in Lincoln, NH a few years ago. It might have been an old Budd car. Didn’t get a close look at it.
One of the Budds burned down? How sad.
Indeed! A shame for sure
Thats interesting....I saw this train with the caboose, boxcar ,flat car and engine only...no Budd liner or that other boxcar...back on Jan 4 at the Lincoln crossing near Audobon heading toward Concord...
What a great video. You have captured a very historical period of time. thank you for doing the chase, it was great to see a major piece of history once again running the rail (no matter how slow). If you don't already belong to you should get in touch with the Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society. I would think they would be interested in the video. Once again Thank YOU FOR A GREAT VIDEO.
Thank you, im so glad you enjoyed! And good to know!
Btw, that field is now the soccer fields.
Interesting video and trains. 👍
Great video - great chase! Love those old Budd cars - glad they're going to be restoring/repurposing that one.
The thing that caught my eye was the Pan Am 5963 at Anderson - I think I saw it running outbound from Boston on the Haverhill Line on Dec 28, 2023. I caught a loco running light as it was crossing the Dana Bridge over the Mystic River behind the Assembly Square Mall - definitely a Pan Am GE loco, just not sure if it was 5963. I was watching the river for birds, and only noticed it at the last moment. I got two blurry photos of it, but can't make out the numbers on the cab. Would Pan Am/CSX still be running any freight in and out of Boston?
Looks like you caught BO-1! Pan am serves the industrys in coke corks (hugh industrial complex behind encore casino in everett), on weekdays. The symbol BO-1, which ran in the afternoon, was actually abolished, and now « LA2 » is the name of the train that goes to boston (sadly, LA2 runs under the cover of darkness)
Nice video and great timing. Thanks for posting. That RDC has been there as long as I can remember. I remember when the Budds went in service back in the 50s. We used to ride them in town from Central Square on the Woburn Loop. One question - why was the train to Billerica leading with the caboose? Was that caboose set up as a cab car.
12:12 amazing catch
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Wow, I was wondering when they would move this stuff. I wish I could have chased it but I did not know that it was happening! Do you have any tips for keeping up to date with this kind of stuff? Thanks
I reccomend joining the mbta commuter railfans facebook group. Lots of updates in their typically
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woah 145 on the downeaster
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Surprised that the wheels even turned on the old Buddliner
Me too 😆
They aren’t the original wheels. It has freight car trucks under it.
15:13 he was near
why is there the blank pallet like car behind the work extra?
I noticed the abnormal bogies on the RDC, did they swap them bc of their age or reliability issues?
What happened to the 3rd RDC?
It’s always the day of when i hear that these things will run so i can never plan :/ Also WEDGEMERE!!!!
Any plans of moving any other older retired equipment to iron horse?
HI BBR
Hello!
do the other two have channels?
What does means the letter “C” on the signals?
Is 3rd street tresspassing?
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Great Video! Glad it’s being restored