now a few weeks ago, after leaving the steaming tender in palmer, i noticed an abandon RDC, which i hadn't noticed on my prior visit the past week. looks like it could run!
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Where is it in Palmer?
atsf sp wrote:Where is it in Palmer?Palmer Ma. There is a resurant called the Steeming Tender
then you go to the NECR yard office, which acts as the local crew base for the new england central. right across from that on a abandon spur track, is the RDC. all that looks cosmeticly wrong with it is a broken window on the engineer's side
Last edited by daylight4449 on Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
What makes you state that its abandoned, I bet you it has an owner, depite being in in decrepid condition.
If Conductors are in charge, why are they promoted to be Engineer???
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Were there no freight cars in because i have been there times and never saw it. But I guess there were freight cars when I was there. What number is it?
It is Ex- MBTA RDC #6152 and has been in Palmer since at least 2003, maybe way longer.
http://naphotos.nerail.org/showpic/?pho ... Sheadogger
http://naphotos.nerail.org/showpic/?pho ... Sheadogger
If Conductors are in charge, why are they promoted to be Engineer???
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The 6152 was sold in 1990 to Classic Rail Cars, Inc. and languished in various locations
as far south as Brunswick, Md. until it ended up back in New England in April 1993.
I don't have documentation, but its looks like the MCER acquired it in 4/93. Title passed
to the state of Massachusetts and the RDC was going to be part of its Operation Lifesaver
Program. This project was abandoned in 1999.
Rumor was the 6152 was then donated to the CT Eastern RR Museum in Willimantic, but
this apparently was not true. The car has been shifted around the Palmer area ever
since. Ownership is unclear.
Dave
as far south as Brunswick, Md. until it ended up back in New England in April 1993.
I don't have documentation, but its looks like the MCER acquired it in 4/93. Title passed
to the state of Massachusetts and the RDC was going to be part of its Operation Lifesaver
Program. This project was abandoned in 1999.
Rumor was the 6152 was then donated to the CT Eastern RR Museum in Willimantic, but
this apparently was not true. The car has been shifted around the Palmer area ever
since. Ownership is unclear.
Dave
atsf sp wrote:Were there no freight cars in because i have been there times and never saw it. But I guess there were freight cars when I was there. What number is it?looks like an old central vermont, perhaps canadian national
MBTA 6152 is ex Boston & Maine #6152 built in august of 1956 as RDC-1 it was retired november 1989.
If Conductors are in charge, why are they promoted to be Engineer???
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atsf sp wrote:Were there no freight cars in because i have been there times and never saw it. But I guess there were freight cars when I was there. What number is it?well sp, it's in the bushes basically, in kind of a ditch. it's really hard to notice. if by ay chance you know bob, the gentleman who owns tuckers hobbies, he'll acknowledge it's exsistance
daylight4449 wrote:I'm not doubting its existence, I just never saw it. Trying to figure out for myself where it is. The first time I went to Palmer I did not go down the road. Te second time I went only to the engines and almost froze my hands off. I make a point of looking for it next time I go to Palmer.atsf sp wrote:Were there no freight cars in because i have been there times and never saw it. But I guess there were freight cars when I was there. What number is it?well sp, it's in the bushes basically, in kind of a ditch. it's really hard to notice. if by ay chance you know bob, the gentleman who owns tuckers hobbies, he'll acknowledge it's exsistance
http://jwdp.rrpicturearchives.net/showP ... id=1927076
http://jwdp.rrpicturearchives.net/showP ... id=1927077
It is grown over with weeds now.
http://jwdp.rrpicturearchives.net/showP ... id=1927077
It is grown over with weeds now.
atsf sp wrote:http://jwdp.rrpicturearchives.net/showP ... id=1927076would covered in snow be an understatement?
http://jwdp.rrpicturearchives.net/showP ... id=1927077
It is grown over with weeds now.
It actually did not have much snow on it.
atsf sp wrote:It actually did not have much snow on it.exactally why it's an understatement