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Canaan Railroad Days

On the left, the three surviving Roger Williams Budd RDC cars, on the right, Webb Rail's FL9 in front of two of the Housatonic Railroad's GP15's #1510 and 1511. According to the Webb Rail's website, #2058 was the penultimate FL9 built for the New Haven in November of 1960, the 59th in an order of 60 of the unique dual powered FL9's built.

The Roger Williams Budds started their move to the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum in Lenox MA, in August 2023. They were stored in Lincoln NH for many many years. The unique140 & 141 cab cars are operable. Budd called the special cars RDC-A's while the middle surviving car is an RDC-B.They were built for the New Haven in 1957.

Photographed by Jay Gadon, August 8, 2026.
Added to the photo archive by Jay Gadon, August 19, 2026.
Railroad: Housatonic.

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Nice, Jay!

Posted by Brian Cunis on 2026-08-19 14:46:28


Great panoramic portrait of New Haven classics bracketing the great surviving CNE station at Canaa

Posted by Ron DeFilippo on 2026-08-20 08:09:56


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