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Budd Cans On The Bridge
You can't ride these here anymore and you certainly can't do this....glad I caught the tail end of an era here. Good memories that from what feels like a lifetime ago.
A pair of classic RDCs (#s 701 & 712) on the Hurricane Turn pause on the train's namesake bridge to allow passengers to get off and walk around. As you can see a decade and a half a ago things were much more casual on the Alaska Railroad than they are now.
701 is an RDC-3 built for the New Haven Railroad in 1953 as their number 126.
712 is an RDC-3 built for the New York Central in 1953 as their number M380.
This would be the last season for the classic "Budd Cans" as the railroad's crews called them as time and the increasing popularity of this train finally caught up to them.
Hurricane, Alaska
Sunday September 7, 2008
Ken Heitzenrater shared |
The link for the road bridge was broke so I have just the info that is in the index.
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