Skip to main content

Including Doodlebugs and other gas or diesel powered, self propelled passenger cars.  B&O Budd RDC-1 no 400 is paired with two RDC-4s; there must be a lot of mail and express business today.  B&M Doodlebug no 181 is hauling a B&M REA reefer on the daily milk run.

294E0950-28EE-444B-802A-B3D2E6456C6F83AE39DD-9727-42D3-AE81-82A507FF7E8A

Attachments

Images (2)
  • 294E0950-28EE-444B-802A-B3D2E6456C6F
  • 83AE39DD-9727-42D3-AE81-82A507FF7E8A
Original Post

Replies sorted oldest to newest

Here's another.

Budd built two of these baggage/coach/dinettes for the B&O in 1956.  Named "Speed Liners"  they were used in DC - Pittsburgh service.  For a while, RDC number 1961 held down a weekend run from B&O's junction with the NY Central into Detroit on weekends, to preserve B&O's  rights over the NYC line until it ended Detroit service in the late 1960's. Other than a few rail fans who knew about that run, there were hardly any passengers.

S. Islander 

 

Attachments

Images (2)
  • BO1961a: B&O Speed Liner 1961 holding down a weekend run over the NY Central in 1965.
  • BO1961A: A Mac Shops model of B&O 1961 departs Edgewater on the Baltimore & New York Ry.

A Budd car is one engine that I do not yet have on my layout. 

I am waiting for a PS2 or PS3 version of CP or CN to be realeased by MTH. I once had an opportunity to purchase a 4 car CP set, an MTH PS1 (it looked awesome).  I was concerned with the cost and practicality of converting it to PS2, so I did not purchase. I have not seen anything close since.

Still looking and waiting for MTH to release a CN or CP Budd RDC in PS3

I'm a Standard Gauge collector but this Lionel 400 Budd car passed through my hands a couple summers ago when a neighbor offered me his entire childhood O gauge collection. Almost everything he had was in the box and in excellent condition and had been stored that way for 40 years. The stuff was so nice I considered branching off into O gauge but decided it best to barter it off for more STD Gauge.

Bud400 . [1)Bud400 . [2)Bud400 . [3)Bud400 . [4)Bud400 . [5)Bud400 . [6)Bud400 . [7)Bud400 . [8)Bud400 . [9)Bud400 . [10)Bud400 . [11)

On a side note I knew a man named Bill Kelly from Warminster, PA who worked his entire career as a shop foreman at Budd. He was instrumental in designing the press brake operation that formed the long pleated  roof and side panels. He was quite a character and a fun guy to listen to. 

Attachments

Images (11)
  • Bud400 . (1)
  • Bud400 . (2)
  • Bud400 . (3)
  • Bud400 . (4)
  • Bud400 . (5)
  • Bud400 . (6)
  • Bud400 . (7)
  • Bud400 . (8)
  • Bud400 . (9)
  • Bud400 . (10)
  • Bud400 . (11)
Last edited by G-Man24
Hartman posted:

This Budd was a B&O dummy unit.  I painted the truck assemblies & added the PRR decals to match the 2 units of the RMT silver truck PRR Budd cars that I have.   D.

I never knew there was an O gauge RDC-4.  Who made it?

I also never knew till today that PRR didn't own any RDCs.

BTW there is a good book by David Duke and Edmund Keilty that has everything you ever wanted to know about RDCs and more.

Lehigh74 posted:
Hartman posted:

This Budd was a B&O dummy unit.  I painted the truck assemblies & added the PRR decals to match the 2 units of the RMT silver truck PRR Budd cars that I have.   D.

I never knew there was an O gauge RDC-4.  Who made it?

I also never knew till today that PRR didn't own any RDCs.

BTW there is a good book by David Duke and Edmund Keilty that has everything you ever wanted to know about RDCs and more.

Made by Lionel

DF8AEFF3-4B86-4DE0-BA21-4037A46B84556B5C9D76-23B9-426E-A0AB-D5D485D8E19EI received my first Lionel train for Xmas 1956 (Steam switcher 1615 with work train). I enjoyed spending hours looking through the catalog that came in the box. One of the “NEW” trains that year was the Budd 400 car. Well, I finally bought an original about 3 weeks ago. I liked it so well that I bought the Lionel reissue Budd RPO car a week later. Fun times!

Attachments

Images (2)
  • DF8AEFF3-4B86-4DE0-BA21-4037A46B8455
  • 6B5C9D76-23B9-426E-A0AB-D5D485D8E19E

I see above a few bashed RDC's, and maybe a stray gas electric, which l could provide several examples to a thread with that subject.  Among other unfinished projects here is one adding a section to an RDC-3 to get a scale length version, as the jack-of-all-trades utility of those cars, like gas electrics, intrigue me.  Wonder if anybody else has done that....lengthened shorty RDC's?

Trussman posted:
trumptrain posted:

B&O - RDC trio on the Free State Junction Railway.

Looking at the people on the platform, they're wondering why didn't those commuter cars stop for us ??????   ;-)

Nice video of the Budds and station.

Thanks so much Trussman -  Easy answer ... it's a Limited ... doesn't stop at all stations.   Those folks' train will be along soon.

This was updated before ERR offered Cruise but they did have a few innovative items.

The TMCC board is as small or smaller than a Cruise lite and Jon offered two one of kind sound boards. The were the scaled down Sound Commanders called the Beep Commander and the Buddy Commander. Pressing Aux1 2 with a Beep Commander would emit a beep beep roadrunner sound. The Buddy Commander was offered in single chime and dual chime horns. This is the dual chime. Sound Commanders only had horn/whistle, bell, and prime mover/chuff. No other sounds.

Pete

Attachments

Videos (1)
FullSizeRender

Add Reply

Post

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×
×