The Move To Canaan Railroad Days With An FL-9. On Friday, August 8, 2025, Webb Rail LLC - WEBX FL-9 2058 (ex-CTDX 2024, née-NH 2058, EMD) towed “The Roger Williams” RDC set to Canaan, Connecticut, to stage for the next day's events. Though the train was operated by a Housatonic Railroad crew, it marked the first time that an exclusively Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum train had operated on these rails in over a decade. WEBX 2058 is a long-term resident of the museum, but is owned by Webb Rail.

Built by Budd for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NYNH&H) as an experimental set in 1957, “The Roger Williams” is an high-speed train set that largely used the existing design of the RDC (Rail Diesel Car) to create a six-car air conditioned train with cabs at both ends to facilitate rapid turns at terminals. The train included small traction motors that operated on third rail to allow for operation into Grand Central Terminal and operated across various routes in New England, though not as a single train, into the Amtrak era. In 2023, the RDC Foundation assembled the three remaining cars and worked with the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum to move the set to Lenox, Massachusetts.

YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/oLULn03wSD0

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