Here is a Canadian example of double hauled RDCs. one of which I rode on June 13, 1970. Canadian National train 122 out of Montreal Central Station cut off two RDC1s at Charny, Quebec. One car proceeded to Quebec City.
The other moved out of the station in the opposite direction and eventually terminated on branch trackage at Edmondston, New Brunswick late that evening. It included a snack bar. I rode the cab part way; and the engineer pointed out a short stretch where the line ran through Estcourt, Maine. Early the next day, I continued eastward from Edmondston to Halifax, Nova Scotia on a two-RDC train. These two RDC-equipped trains were remnants of a one-time through service.
On the New Haven Boston operation, I saw a train of aboutfive cars with RDC at the rear out of South Station which turned north at Needham Junction for Needham, while the trailed RDC cut off at the junction for an outlyling town, probably Millis.
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines was famous for a double split (off at Tuckahoe for Ocean City and off at Wildwood Junction for Wildwood) but apparently never hauled RDCs behind regular trains.
The other moved out of the station in the opposite direction and eventually terminated on branch trackage at Edmondston, New Brunswick late that evening. It included a snack bar. I rode the cab part way; and the engineer pointed out a short stretch where the line ran through Estcourt, Maine. Early the next day, I continued eastward from Edmondston to Halifax, Nova Scotia on a two-RDC train. These two RDC-equipped trains were remnants of a one-time through service.
On the New Haven Boston operation, I saw a train of aboutfive cars with RDC at the rear out of South Station which turned north at Needham Junction for Needham, while the trailed RDC cut off at the junction for an outlyling town, probably Millis.
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines was famous for a double split (off at Tuckahoe for Ocean City and off at Wildwood Junction for Wildwood) but apparently never hauled RDCs behind regular trains.
John Pawson