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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2026 7:23 pm Post subject:

(SEE PREVIOUS POST/LINK)

Cyberider:

Enjoy this page on the iconic RDCs; NICE photos (including a few "doodblebugs"!) Wink

Interesting article w/comments............. Very Happy

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/trackside-classic/trackside-classics-the-budd-rdc/

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:51 am Post subject:

Interesting historical info (and photos) on the MONON (RDC)..........

https://monon.org/BuddRDC.php

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:58 am Post subject:

Both BUDD and P-S built the unique "Strata-Domes"; these unique cars also served AMTRAK..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata-Dome

["THE COLUMBIAN"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 10:08 am Post subject:

Excellent photos, diagrams, etc. on the iconic "Stata-Domes".........

https://streamlinermemories.info?p=1232

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 10:14 am Post subject:

Another excellent RDC page..........

https://streamlinermemories.info/?p=2227

["JERSEY CENTRAL LINES"]

Cyberider · Joined: 27 Apr 2007 Posts: 1384 Location: Tempe, AZ

Thanks for all the RDC info, NYO.

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 3:08 pm Post subject:

Cyberider:

You are, as always, most welcome......I've always been a BIG-TIME fan of the iconic RDC; I'm so very fortunate that I got to ride CNJ's as often as I did, as a lad! Wink

"NYO"

["5:15:E-PORT"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2026 9:05 pm Post subject:

CNJ's RDCs........

During rush hours, several RDCs would be lashed up (and smokin' up a storm!) for "Clocker" service, between Jersey City and Raritan (and points west); Raritan was then the last major commuter station on the Main Line, out of Jersey City.

They'd also be found on the "Hunterdon Commuter" (rush hours only)

The RDCs also ruled the Shuttles between Newark (Broad Street) and Elizabethport (Newark Branch) and between Matawan and Atlantic Islands (Seashore Branch)

After the Aldene Plan of 1967, the RDCs were used almost exclusively on the Bayonne-Cranford shuttle ("The Scoot"); main line connections could be made at Cranford............

"NYO"

["BUDD"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:16 am Post subject:

It is indeed a powerful sign that the ensuing years have flown by far too quickly, when you realize that the very first of the now-iconic Amtrak "AMFLEET" cars entered service over 50 years ago......a HALF-CENTURY! Shocked

I'm glad that I can say that I rode aboard "AMFLEET" cars several times in the past (the last was in 1997)

When the last of these long-lived and distinctive cars are retired, a long and iconic era will forever close on Amtrak.

They were/are, indeed, a easily-recognizable "trademark" of AMTRAK.........

"NYO"

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amfleet

["AMCAFE"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:24 am Post subject:

Also of interest...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Regional

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2026 1:30 pm Post subject:

Recalling the days of AMTRAK's mail and express service (I well recall substantial head-end traffic on the E-L and CNJ, through a good part of the 1960s)

Such traffic was once indeed integral to most passenger operations......

https://utahrails.net/pass/amtrak-mail-express.html

["RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY"].

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2026 11:40 pm Post subject:

Must make mention of these now long gone, once state-of-the-art AMTRAk trainsets........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turboliner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UAC_TurboTrain

["UAC"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 9:19 am Post subject:

The thriving "nerve center" of the NEC is New York's Penn Station; sadly, in a monumental act of vandalism,the opulent and lofty station from 1910 was demolished over 60 years ago.

I am very fortunate indeed to have visited this legendary station a number of times in my long-ago youth.

This article is quite interesting, with a number of historic and modern photos, also, much detail on current operations.

The trains of AMTRAK, LIRR, and NJT all serve Penn..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Penn_Station

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 9:24 am Post subject:

Also of interest........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Station_Access

["NEC"]

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 · Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 10:56 am Post subject:

AMTRAK, NJT, and PATH trains all serve Newark's historic Art Deco Penn Station, which opened in 1935.

Until 2001, the iconic PCCs of the Newark City Subway still served this station.

It is the 7th busiest rail hub in the United States.

This is another his historic facility I knew well from my boyhood days, and through adulthood.

A trackplan of this busy station is also included in the article...........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Penn_Station

["PENNSYLVANIA"]