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Santa Fe RDC on the Reading

By Mitch Horner | November 7, 2025

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En route from Philadelphia’s Budd Co. to its owner, Santa Fe Railway Rail Diesel Car DC-192 is added to the rear of the Reading’s Harrisburg Special at RDG’s Outer Station in Reading, Pa., in May 1952. At right, a Reading G-3 Pacific stands with another passenger train. George W. Gerhart photo

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  1. Note that AT&SF RDC’s #DC-191 and #DC-192, built for assignment to the Surf Line, wrecked on January 22nd, 1956 at Redondo Junction in L.A., afterwards both sent to Topeka for repairs, with #DC-192 rebuilt in mid-1957 to RDC-2, both subsequently reassigned to Newton-Dodge City, reassigned in 1965 to El Paso-Albuquerque, both retired in 1968…

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