The Last Mainline RDC: VIA Rail Budd Car
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- In the summer of 2024 we took a ride on the last mainline RDC in North America. VIA Rail's Budd car runs between Sudbury and White River Ontario. We would ride the entire route from Sudbury to White River and return over two days. This ride takes you back to classic branch line railroading, running through the deep back woods making flag stops in remote locations. This also is one of the last trains to follow the original route of The Canadian on Canadian Pacific. Because it was summer, we also were treated to a larger consist of three different RDC's.
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Just stumbled across your channel-great video! Since I saw some CPKC containers I know these scenes are post-merger. I know it’s going to take time but those were CPKC trains, not CP. I’m from Kansas with the same issue-not KCS now but CPKC. Thanks again!
Thank you for this truly splendid video, which I thoroughly enjoyed ! Believe it or not I have ridden on Budd RDCs, when MARC in Washington DC used several in their early days ! I really liked them and it is good to see VIA rail continue to use theirs in Ontario. Long may it continue !
I am glad to have ridden the BCR Budds from North-Van to Lillooet and back, and also the QNS&L from Wabush to Sept-Iles.
Great to see RDC’s in such good condition still in regular service.
That White River boarding situation is wild - the RDCs can't use the inside track closest to the platform, but an intermodal hotshot can...
This is an amazing presentation and of course if you can add the GPS on the Right - top or left of the screen will add another location feature that will help in making a visit to the area. It’s all full of natural beauty. We can explore. I have been in Canada for 24 years and have driven to Sudbury and would like to travel further north to explore and know more. Great presentation. ❤
Greetings from Sudbury!
Love the Canadian Shield
Nothing but lakes, rocks and woods. From Cornwall, Ontario to Kenora, Ontario 2000 klicks (km)
Best seen by train
montreal - senneterre get off and on in the bush as you please
@@kurtfriedrich9599 You are right but it should be “rocks, lakes and trees,” mydescription to people when leaving Toronto on the train for Vancouver! Most don't believe me and don't believe me when I tell them we will not cross into Manitoba for 30 hours!
Thank you for a great video of " vintage " rail travel through some of the remote Canadian wilderness, the scenery is definitely worth it and those flag stops seemed almost a necessity in the backcountry there, makes me wonder how people like those going hunting or fishing with their canoes would get on. Viewing from here in NZ 🇳🇿
We had the Rail Liner service from Edmonton to Calgary until the 90s I believe, before they canceled it. It was Greyhound after that.
Now, no Greyhound option.
Right on, worked this train years ago when it was ran by CP Crews out of Chapleau and MacTier!
Welcome back. I have no idea how your subscription keeps falling off!
I rode RDC Budds on the Boston & Maine between Swampscott, Ma. and Boston.
The brother of the Black Beetle or M-497 which did 297 km/h in 1965 or so😉
At one time there was a Budd passenger care that ran from Bay City to Midland! I remember it as a kid I cannot find any info on it at all! Can you help?🙃
Why does that passenger train in White River park one track over from the station buildings and have the mainline pass in between the station building and the passenger train, a bit stupid don't you think.
We need more good passenger service in Canada.
Very informative video! Thank you!
Anyone know how often the Budd cars break down?
69 years and still in active service... *Budd don't f*cking break*
This is neat, I never knew they still had these!
As a Canadian it saddens me to, see a way of life as I knew as a child and young man dissappear........... but we all know that in the " suits " ............ minds...... lol.........like they have one.......unless it puts the thirty pecices of silver in their hands....... we are all for sale .......
I remember taking the Canadian way back in 84 to junior ranger camp which was at sultan Ontario about 40 kilometres east of chapleau
Andy, I am familiar with Sultan. I was both a JR (1967) and a SR (1968) in the Chapleau District camps at Barclay Bay on Missinaibi Lake (Big Miss) and Wrong Lake. Best times of my life...next to births of my 2 sons.
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As an avid train nut THANK YOU 🙏 for taking me with on this great trip!!.. film and commentary is fantastic!! 👍👍👍❤️
If I remember right....the Alaska Railroad had 4 Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDC) running in the past. I took one years ago on the Talkeetna - Hurricane "Flag Stop" run in order to get out into the bush for some fishing and backpacking. The Alaska Railroad still offers that Talkeetna to Hurricane RT service, but I don't think they're still using the Budd's.
Nice video. Can't make everyone happy, but I sure would have preferred hearing the train instead of music.
I agree!👍
Kart Chee EH is how you pronounce Cartier.....OUI !
sadly both CP and CN would not let via rail have the track times so never played a big role in service Canada ever lot would take the train better than flying but the cost of the ticket for the train is why to high i can drive my own vehicle cheaper the the train tickets
Justin Trudeau whinging and crying about climate change maybe he should lower the ticket prices and get rail the track times so they can make money refugee in the sea cans could wait for the via rail to pass by them
lol trains help combat climate change, i don’t know why you’re taking a stance on this just for tickets. Go push your MPs to support bills to help Via Rail get track priority like Amtrak does, or guessing you’re against cause it’s a Liberal or NDP idea. Same reason why the government plans for a High Frequency…now High speed Rail for Quebec City to Toronto because of the same problems also on the corridor.
Train travel is not gonna improve unless the populace and politics push to support it. This is went to shit because of government cuts in the 80s and 90s for Via Rail and Canadian National being privatised. Via Rail was way more faster running on CN tracks because it was government owned, signalled, schedule, and maintained
these cars look like from the 70s ont he outside
They are 50s Rolling Stock
If it’s not three hours behind schedule, it’s definitely not VIA!
Took this trip on October 1 and 2 this year. Great fall colour.
where do you stay overnight?????
Sudbury is hardly a small town. It’s population is about 170,000 and by area it is the 5th largest city in Canada.
it feels like a small town because it sits on its own and you can drive trough it all in minutes. All of the GTA's suburbs have all connected up so they all feel massive compared to sudbury yet the actual poppulations are lower.
White River is though
Was at at one time the coldest spot in Caynada
Minus 72 Faarenheit😅😢
It feels way smaller tho since it's disconnected from the rest of Ontario with only a few trains each week to Toronto
Reading & Northern RR has 3 they run to Jim Thorpe pa
VIA's train stations looks like they never escaped from the 1960s, jeez
this is up north and thats the charm of it all. this is a very special station on the network for many reasons
With six trains per week, it's not a surprise they didn't invest into this station.
I'd like to see this service extended to either Thunder bay or toronto
If it was, that would be the end of the RDCs. 12 hours to white river is long. 18-20 to Thunder Bay in only a coach seat and no real food services would be an ordeal. They’d need coaches with berths and some kind of onboard dining.
Better idea might be to bring the Toronto/Vancouver Canadian back through downtown Sudbury, instead of wayy out in Capreol. That would be your Toronto connection.
Ontario Northland’s bus coverage is decent as it is.
Dont forget this is Caynada😂
Quite enjoyed the video! Thank you. Summers of 1967 & 1968 I rode the CPR from Ottawa to Chapleau, return, for summer jobs with L&F. But something TOTALLY ruined this experience of your video for me. Any way of silencing that horrible, background music?? PLEASE? You would be doing yourself and your viewers a BIG favour. Thank you.
To finish my comment...your narration is part of it and it's your video, and it is informative. BUT...the joy of "riding the rails" is to listen to the "hum of the train on the track" and the occasional sound of passengers talking. The background music is not conducive to and only detracts from the ambiance of rail travel. And it's plain irritating. JMhO.
I agree also!👍
@@terrybc7004
@@terrybc7004 When I got the email "heads-up" of your comment to my post (it stood at 18 comments when I posted) I was amazed it now stood at 71 comments. As I reread my 2 postings I can see I was very curt and...well, I meant to be a little curt but maybe not that curt. I have wonderful memories of my time "riding the rails". Edmonton to Vancouver through the Canadian Rockies was the best!! The best part is time with my thoughts, watching the view pass by the window and listening to the wheels on the track. Thanks for the "thumbs up...Terry. Now, if one could also eliminate postings like the one below by one David Anyim, riding my train riding memories would all that much better. The posting below is more out of place that the distracting music on the video. TY
If you prefer to produce your own nearly hour long video because you are displeased, feel free. However the reality of the raw footage is all you hear is HVAC sounds, background conversations, and occasional creek from the old car. Nothing “romantic” like a clickity clack or railroad sounds. With RDC’s you’re in with the motors, which just sound like bus motors anyway. The fact of the matter is, in general the music will be more enjoyable than most of what the background noise is. In addition to this, out of the respect for my own and others privacy, I do not prefer to have personal conversations included in the production.
Black people in Northern Ontario? Weird.
Why do you say that?
Why not
We are a free coantry i hope.
Everyone is welcome❤
unironically racist
35 yrs ago my girl friend went from cart. to bistotashing to visit her family
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