CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. — Central New York’s Finger Lakes Railway resumed its public excursion program on July 8, offering trips between Canandaigua and Clifton Springs, N.Y., using Budd RDC-1 AEAX 2012.
Two round trips operated from Canandaigua, offering a 2½ layover in Clifton Springs; one round trip was also offered from Clifton Springs with a short layover in Canandaigua. The RDC was built for Canadian National, and later operated by VIA Rail Canada and Trinity Rail Express in Texas.
These trips will continue on Saturdays in July and August. A schedule and tickets for these and other fexcursions are available at the Finger Lakes website.
— Updated at 11:05 a.m. CDT to correct photo credit.
Built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the RDC-1 is an 85 ft (25.91 m) all-passenger coach seating 90 passengers. It weighed 118,300 pounds (53.7 t) empty.
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It’s a Budd RDC-1.
Almost ten years later, the Finger Lakes Railway Excursion is making a return, and in a very big way. Not only do they plan on adding more trips, but they have added a whole new train car to their inventory.
The Trinity Railway Express car was built back in 1954 and bought from the Dallas Area Rapid Transit. Sitting up to 88 passengers, the cart was originally used to transport people between Dallas and Fort Worth.
The hopes of buying this new passenger car is undoubtedly to add more trips in their schedule. All aboard!
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