Let’s see your Budd cars!

OK, here they are, in situ...

FrankM

3rd RAIL Scale 3 rail NYC RDC / Budd

I love these cars, I collected all three offerings. Lionel PW, MPC and Celebration Series!

S Scale clones of Athearn HO RDC's by American HiRail (minus the rubber-band drive...)

Rusty

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 

Where are the "Galloping Geese" or similar self propelled units?  There must be some out there!

You hit on one of my favorite cars. I have several Budd cars.   ;-)

Several pw, Canadian Nationals, Amtrak, Service Station B&O sets, both reissue of the pw sets. 

Here are my 2.....

OK.  Only the first two shots are mine. With Little Wally at the controls of a Railking consist.  The next two belong to a guy named Andy Muller.  And the last shot isn’t even a Budd car, but a Budd ruler.  I suspect the ruler came from either my grandfather or uncle who both worked for Budd.

As we all know, I am constitutionally unable to leave well enough alone: 

Mitch 

MU and RDC cars.

And these must be the children!  

With their babysitter.   

Mitch

Some Jersey Central Budds on a Saturday afternoon! 

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.

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

B&O excursion Pittsburgh-Johnstown c. '65-'66. My one ride in an RDC.

Berkshire Scenic Railroad Museum, North Adams, Ma. Pic taken October, 2015:

Joe K, good luck on your hunt for a CN or CP Budd!

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.

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. 

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:

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

Not directly, no.  However, the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines did operate a sizable fleet of RDCs. most of which are still around today in one spot or another...

Mitch

We were on a dinner excursion ride North from Vancouver and made a rest stop. While waiting this came by.

I found an early Auburn RDC shell and added K-line powered trucks, ERR TMCC and sound. The headlights and marker lights are LED's. The headlights are directional and the marker lights are dual color LED's, green for forward and red for reverse.

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

I 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!

Original Marx, 1 powered and 2 dummies that I made up from spare parts.

Photos show my Sunset/3^rd Rail New Haven Budd Rail Diesel Cars #21 and #121 on my 12’-by-8’ layout. Very finely detailed, well made and smooth-running models.

MELGAR

MTH New Haven Budds in video & Lionel B & O Budds in pictures

Captain John - very nice pics and video!

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?

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

Pat:

That is a great video. I also enjoyed the "Bud" refrigerator car passing on the inside track.

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.

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

trumptrain posted:

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.

A limited, not to be confused with an Express'....

Here's Budd's 1980 version of the 1950s original, the SPV 2000.  Nice looking, but apparently mechanically unreliable.  Nevertheless, Connecticut's ran for years as umpowered coaches/cab cars, and once were used to evacuate people in Louisiana from an approaching hurricane.  This is a scale Clark Benson model, three-railed with K-line interurban power trucks, modified with correct 48" fans, vents from Scale City, Amtrak/CDOT paint, etc.

Bruce Clouette posted:

Here's Budd's 1980 version of the 1950s original, the SPV 2000.  Nice looking, but apparently mechanically unreliable.  Nevertheless, Connecticut's ran for years as umpowered coaches/cab cars, and once were used to evacuate people in Louisiana from an approaching hurricane.  This is a scale Clark Benson model, three-railed with K-line interurban power trucks, modified with correct 48" fans, vents from Scale City, Amtrak/CDOT paint, etc.

Neat!  I have a bunch of Clark Benson Budd-style O scale kits.  Hadn't seen a Benson like yours before.  What did the car come with, originally?  Any history to the extrusion, car ends, and other components included with the original.  

The extrusion and the underbody castings are the same as his Amfleets, I believe, but with metal end castings unique to the SPV2000 and a shaped wood roof blister. It also came with the Amfleet type control rods and dampers for the trucks, which are correct for the SPV2000.  I bought this from Bill Culliton.

 Bruce.

I love Budd cars! This morning the boys wanted to run one of each road name in a single train. Lots of fun. 

Bruce, Your SPV 2000 is awesome! You’ve got me thinking about taking a spare MTH Amfleet car and getting out my tools!!!