"This Budd's For You!" - Moving a Boston & Maine RDC

On Thursday, November 30, 2023, former Boston & Maine Railroad RDC-1 6154 made the trek from storage at North Walpole, NH to its new home at he Troy Historical Society. Follow along as we learn the history of the RDC on the B&M, and 6154's landmark journey.

[@Headshot51423]

I work for FedEx and happened to be doing deliveries in Walpole when they were moving this, it was a pretty cool sight!

[@harryfatcat]

My dad ran RDC's for years for B&M. I used to go to work with him every now and then, great memories.

[@NeedtoSpeak]

Wow…..109 Units is a stunning number of RDCs owned by one operator.

[@tedfisk1211]

Great project and great result

[@sabertoothduck]

The area is changing. Glad they acknowledge history

[@zachknutsen4661]

Thank you so much for posting this, probably one of the greatest days in my life seeing a dream fulfilled 🙂 -ZK

[@TonyLasagna]

Interesting! We have one of those down here in Rockland right now running on the midcoast rail service line occasionally

[@johngarven2125]

Love the video! At my work we have a ex B&M Budd #6129 on site. It's demotored and we use it for washrooms. It was brought in and placed on site we similar to yours. Well done!

[@TheOldSalt]

I can’t find pics of it, looking for research, are you sure it’s 6129?

[@brianfalzon6739]

Thank you for the history!

[@theatomicmanman544]

He'll yeah I'm in the video. Happy the car found a new home, just took up room

[@plunkervillerr1529]

Thanks for the history.

[@sjwhitney]

Technically, there were FIVE B&M models. The RDC-3 was split between baggage/RPO and also full RPO with no baggage.

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Must have been 15 or 30 foot RPO sections. USPS would only lease exactly 15, 30, or 60 feet and had exact specifications for room layout and door and window type, size, and placement.

[@MIKES0029]

Another great result. Just like Bedford, MA’s BuddLiner

[@boston_and_maine]

another b&m classic episode 😎

[@cats0182]

Whenever I see a story on the RDC, I think of Budd's attempt to produce a suitable successor in the SPV2000. Which then leads me to wonder how Budd could have produced such a colossal failure given the company's history of producing some of the greatest rail cars during the golden age or passenger rail travel.

[@lostrailbeds8289]

HEY!! Great Video!!

[@johngarven2125]

It's at Webers a restaurant in Canada. Near Orillia Ontario

[@seanbrooking485]

I notices the two near south station are gone. was really hoping they were saving them.

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Looks like they removed the engines and stuff on the bottom. Are they going to put it back on properly?

[@zachknutsen4661]

Most stuff will go back on (battery boxes, air tanks) the prime mover (it only had one left) was sold to a museum, the engine boxes will be reconstructed though, so it'll look the part.

[@thepandeslar8062]

Why didn't they move it by rail?

[@youraveragebathtub]

couldnt, it was so old and it also burnt down, there were also no controls left, and the wheels would practically fall apart if disturbed.

[@BentendoGameBoy]

Not to mention that there are no rails to run it on.

[@zachknutsen4661]

False, wheels are in great shape and it's not burnt out. Tracks between North Walpole and Troy were torn up in 1984, that's why it wasn't moved by rail.

[@youraveragebathtub]

@@zachknutsen4661 Still, its not a great idea to move them by rail, if they fail then its a even bigger problem for the MBTA.

[@MillersRailfan]

Beautiful video; Rick Fantastic background music as well