Comments on: Although the RDC’s are on a VIA train, these RDC’s are still in Canadian Pacific paint. It is July 24, 1980 near Bayview Junction, Ontario. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Thu, 07 May 2026 15:18:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Stephen C. Host http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=57477#comment-65959 Stephen C. Host Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:53:09 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img005-2WKG1280CC.jpg#comment-65959 amazing amazing

]]> By: Jakob Mueller http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=57477#comment-65872 Jakob Mueller Tue, 23 Sep 2025 23:26:24 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img005-2WKG1280CC.jpg#comment-65872 At this time, the RDCs assigned to the Buffalo and Peterborough trains were still maintained by CP at John Street, and both of those trains regularly sported CP-painted but VIA-owned RDCs into 1981. By 1980, few cars were left in the pool, and the typical Buffalo consist was 9115 and 9021 (RDC-2 and RDC-3), the typical Peterborough consist was 9061 and 9071 (both RDC-1s), with 9308 ("RDC-5") as a swing car when another one needed maintenance or if volumes were high. This train is 9115 and 9308. As ridership grew under VIA, extra cars in VIA paint would get borrowed from Spadina and appear more often on both routes. When the Amtrak Maple Leaf replaced this train in April 1981, the CP RDCs rotated to Point-St-Charles for rebuilding, and were renumbered into the appropriate CN/VIA number series (i.e. 6100s/6200s). The Peterborough train was fully handled by CN-series, VIA-painted RDCs before its first cancellation took effect in 1982. At this time, the RDCs assigned to the Buffalo and Peterborough trains were still maintained by CP at John Street, and both of those trains regularly sported CP-painted but VIA-owned RDCs into 1981. By 1980, few cars were left in the pool, and the typical Buffalo consist was 9115 and 9021 (RDC-2 and RDC-3), the typical Peterborough consist was 9061 and 9071 (both RDC-1s), with 9308 (“RDC-5″) as a swing car when another one needed maintenance or if volumes were high. This train is 9115 and 9308. As ridership grew under VIA, extra cars in VIA paint would get borrowed from Spadina and appear more often on both routes.

When the Amtrak Maple Leaf replaced this train in April 1981, the CP RDCs rotated to Point-St-Charles for rebuilding, and were renumbered into the appropriate CN/VIA number series (i.e. 6100s/6200s). The Peterborough train was fully handled by CN-series, VIA-painted RDCs before its first cancellation took effect in 1982.

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