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Okay cool! We bought some buses in Ottawa with the 8V71 from Santa Monica in 1995 but we took that out and put in a good ol 6V71 as we disabled the A/C as we were in major financial problems at the time.

Ah now I get the problems. Also what kind of Detroit did the RDC and SPV have? I was really wondering as I heard the RDC engine was bus engine put into a train car. Did they have a 6V71N or what? As most buses back in the 50s had the 6V71.

Yeah that's what I'm wondering, if they wanted to make it look modern they could of just taken a RDC and remove the body shell and put on a SPV2000 body shell and viola! You got yourself a RDC2000. It sure would of ran into 2000 like they planned on it doing. P.S. VIA Rail still runs RDCs year...

Yes it is pretty sad. So what was different in it from the RDC as if I remember correctly the RDC was also a straight diesel. Was it a unreliable transmission? Our buses in Ottawa that were built after the year 2000 are pretty unreliable also so it might be that.

I know it's been a year and one day since the last post in this topic but I really do not want to start up a new topic about this but I got a question about the SPV2000. Does anyone have a interior shot of the Amtrak units and what were exactly their problems?