Caption: For many years, RDCs held down the Niagara Falls trains. Checking old passenger timetables, this seems to have started with the October 1961 "change of card" where RDCs from the Falls would connect with through trains which ran into/backed out of Hamilton. (Fun fact--until that time, the evening conventional train carried a Niagara Falls-Montreal sleeper, "open for occupancy at Niagara Falls 6:45 pm"! There was also a Montreal-Niagara Falls sleeper on the morning train.) At the spring 1962 timetable change, CN moved the connection out of Hamilton by extending three RDCs each way to Dundas--a practice which only lasted until the fall of 1962 when RDCs protected two of three Toronto-Hamilton-Niagara Falls trains (the third schedule was a conventional train). By the late 1960s, RDCs had become the norm (typically three Budd car sets, but often four cars on holiday weekends). By the 1980s, VIA was still running three trains per day but generally with two RDCs on the two Niagara Falls return trips (with Amtrak equipment on the Maple Leaf to and from New York starting in April 1981). On 16 November 1986, something clearly has gone wrong since we have CN GP9 4590 leading the usual pair of RDCs on the afternoon train from Niagara Falls. P.S. RDCs would last on these trains until the great January 1990 VIA cutback when they were retired and replaced by conventional equipment. Service was reduced to one VIA consist and one Amtrak consist in each direction. Today, only the Maple Leaf runs--the second train having been cancelled at the end of October 2012.