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VIA6147
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VIA Rail Budd Rail Diesel Car RDC-1 No. 6147.
Built 3/1955
Budd Serial number 6014
Acquired from CP in 1982.
This unit, along with VIA Rail No. 6143, made the final passenger trip on the DAR with the Halifax to Yarmouth run of the "Evangeline" Dayliner service on January 14, 1990. The return trip to Halifax, without passengers, in the early morning hours of January 15, marked the last trip made by an RDC on the DAR.[1]
Gallery
VIA RDC 6147 in Yarmouth 2nd January 1990.
Meteghan Station with a crowd greeting No. 6147 on the last eastbound, Yarmouth to Halifax passenger run, Train No. 154, January 14, 1990.
