A single passenger vehicle equipped with its own engine and control cabs at both ends, eliminating the need for a separate locomotive. While the term broadly refers to any piece of rolling stock in general North American freight parlance, it specifically denotes self-propelled units like Budd cars on commuter or branch lines.
Heard on the job
The morning run is just a single diesel railcar handling the commuter traffic.
Also heard as
- RDC
- motorcar