Passenger Service comes to the KLR

I have thought about adding an RDC to the KLR ever since they were first introduced by Rapido.  But I held to my original thought that the KLR was simply too small a railroad to have need of such equipment.  Well several weeks ago, after running on Bram Bailey's Ontario Central, I decided that I also needed at least one RDC.  Bram has three OCR units running on a regular passenger train route, and those Rapido's just run so nicely that after hearing them spool up to speed, I was hooked.

RDC 9051 picks up passengers at the Peterborough station.

After some Internet searching, I found someone in Indiana (of all places) selling a CP Rail RDC-1 at a decent price. The treasury of the KLR was able to come up with the money and the purchase was made.  The unit arrived this week, and after a little break-in session and some tweaking of the DCC system, everything was working and the RDC has been placed into service.  I'm still working on the details of its service, but for now it's going to function similar to what some of the RDCs used in British Columbia were used for.  That is the transport of school children and workers.  So until more details are worked through, the RDC will run in the early morning and late afternoon to transport everyone to Pembroke.  These will be whistle stops and all are welcome to flag down the unit for pickup.

RDC 9051 begins to pass over Eels Creek on it's way to Pembroke