First Move in 20 Years! Old Boston and Maine Rail Equipment on MBTA Work Extra
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- This weekend, the MBTA Work Extra ran 2 very old pieces of former Boston and Maine equipment out of Boston to North Billerica on the New Hampshire Route Main Line. The equipment was a former B&M RDC passenger car and a B&M insulated milk car.
MBTA RDC car 6213 was built in September 1956. Original built under the Boston & Maine railroad for Boston commuter rail service, this car was last used for passengers in the early 1980s and subsequently put into storage in North Billerica MA along with many other cars of its type. However in 2003, 2 MBTA RDCs in storage were moved from North Billerica to Boston Engine Terminal for plans that never took off. After sitting for over 20 years outside Boston Engine Terminal, surviving a fire, and years of vandalism, the remaining RDC car was pulled out and moved back to North Billerica in January 2024 on this extra. This car is planned to undergo a cosmetic restoration and be used for display/office space at the new facility in North Billerica.
The Milk car numbered MBTA 1930 is of unknown origin to the MBTA. However we do know that it was built in March 1958 for the B&M as car number 1930. This car was cooled by ice and was part of an order of that had the last milk cars ever built for a railroad, per George Dutka. This milk car ended up being acquired by the MBTA in the 1990s. This car was never used by the MBTA and by the early 2000s, was put into storage on the same track as the aforementioned RDC's outside Boston Engine Terminal.
The MBTA C-1 Work Extra caboose lead the shove move up to Billerica this day, and was joined by 2 other MBTA work train cars being the MBTX 1411 and MBTX 100 for added train braking. The 1411 car is an former Amtrak material handling box car and is now used by the MBTA to deliver road salt to station platforms in the winter. The MBTX 100 is an 89ft flat car used by the work train.
This will probably be the last time this equipment is seen moving over a mainline and will be the last RDC car to depart Boston.
When I first moved to Boston in 1974, the MBTA was still running RDCs from North Station to the old South Acton station (before it was torched). I lived in Brighton and worked in Maynard, and rode them a few times from Porter Square to West Concord and back.
What I mostly remember was that the windows were so grimy that they were opaque -- and they were pulled by locomotives like any other coach.
In the mid 60s someone thought it would be a good idea to strap a couple jet engines on the roof of a Budd RDC. It went 180MPH. True story.
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Didn’t know about that. Interesting story to read about. Thanks!
New York Central did that experiment... it worked, but didn't progress further.
It was done as a publicity stunt at the request of the president of the New York Central, Perlman I think his name was. They used a long section of tangent (straight) track in western New York.
from my understanding of the situation from an insider at the MBTA, the plans for the RDC car is that it's going to be cosmetically restored and converted into a conference room car.
Yeah that sounds like the plan as of now
That RDC looks pretty rough, but I'd buy it!
It's in better condition than my last Toyota Corolla, and I still got another 200,000 k out of it!
Saint Louis Railcar has a RDC for sale for $6,000.00.
Fully complete with engines.
Awesome catch! Wish I was out to see it
Thank you very much!
Wow….so sad to see this Budd car in this state. The RDCs were incredible pieces of equipment.
The other Budd car is gone.
This was quite a chase! Thanks 👍
Nice to see the Budd car and Milk car didn’t get scrapped! Thanks for sharing.
Really cool catch!
Thank you Blake! Was really cool to see!
My old stomping grounds, West Medford!
Awesome! I was lucky to be able to catch that at Billerica on Saturday!
Wow! So cool to catch this! Too bad I couldn’t see this.
Thank you man!
Nice that one is finally getting some attention after all these years. Too bad the other one is gone, didn't know that it got set on fire though so that's sadly understandable.
That is a real shame! RDC BUDD cars are getting hard to find. Does not look like much was left.Engines are out, almost ever piece of glass is broken or boarded up.. Trucks still work, but it looks like the moters are missing too.... Yard damange sucks.. Really wish people would not be so destructive.
There are several Budd RDC cars here in Southern New Jersey, preserved on a tourist railroad. They are originally from the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines and were built in 1949. Two of them are operable. I've ridden on them.
Those are freight car trucks, not the original RDC trucks-which did not have traction motors,RDC's had a bus type hydraulic transmission.The control stand looked like a 3 speed shifter
@robertgoodwin5570 on second look. Yup. That said, vandalism still socks. People just overall do not have respect for property at all. Very sad.
There are still 1 or 2 routes on VIA Rail in Canada where RDCs's are still in regular service
@alanb3213 yeah. I've been on one of them. Sadly, parts as noted by the conductor I chatted with are getting harder to find and are reaching un-obtainium levels.. won't be long till the choice to change out to newer "old" rolling stock will have to be made.
I hope that budd car gets restored and running again
Unfortunately it wont be running again however it will be restored back to original looks and used an as office
I remember the Budd RDCs I would ride them to Boston with my grandmother. 6:55
nice video... its awesome that the rusty and rusty rolls ; a real great train to watch
Thank you very much!
Crazy how it the RdC still has its BM markings
I don’t understand why we’re losing their minds over this lol. Nice vid
Any unusual move is interesting! :)
Foamers...
OMG a Budd combine, a Milk express car and Amtrak high speed box. I love them. Where did they go?
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The Budd and Milk car went to North Billerica
NICE
1:37 Photo Op .... oh c'mon. 😅 Kuddos for releasing those locked wheels!! Joining millions of others in saying I love these videos. As a boy of about 10, I watched a last trip of a Boston - Fall River - Cape Cod Inbound to Boston along the Neponset River which abutted the old Neponset Drive-in. It's a bike path now but so many intended bike paths are being reclaimed as operating rail lines. This is fantastic news for the country in more ways than one. Creating a PlayList on my Channel for videos such as this. Thank you @Northeast Rail Videos
Please tell me they're going to get preserved
They sure are!
Cool old train to safe
Nice catch!!
Thank you!
Is that the old budd car that’s been sitting near north station for years?
It sure is!
Its one of them, I'm not sure if this is the one that got lit on fire by some rogue foamer a few years back though. never did find out what they did to it
@@RedSkeletonGames 6214 was damaged by fire in 2022.
@@mmandmcb14 I knew of the fire, didn't know which one it originated from, or what they did to the other one
@@RedSkeletonGames😢6214 is gone.
Where's the milk car going??
Not entirely sure but it could be going to a scenic railroad in Vermont. I heard that briefly in passing so I am not 100% that will be the case.
What will happen to the 6214?
The 6214 was scrapped in place in December 2023. It was damaged in a fire in fall 2022 and unable to be saved.
I had no idea that move was gonna happen this weekend! Sad I missed it.
What happened with the other RDC? Scrapped?
According to many sources, it got torched and had to be scrapped.
Where are they off to?
North Billerica MA
@@BostonBeaconParkthanks for the info
Where did they leave the Budd car?
In the North Billerica shop area
She going to scrap?
6214 was scrapped last year.
It is being cosmetically restored for the MBTA
@@BostonBeaconPark 6213 or 6214?
@@mmandmcb14 The 6213, which is seen in this video. As you mentioned, the 6214 was scrapped in December
@@BostonBeaconPark Railfans will miss the 6214.