Connecticut officials actually had a good idea – they would use Budd cars to increase train service on the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield line as well as the Waterbury and Danbury branch lines.

Railroad dome cars are a gleaming symbol of postwar passenger train status. The streamliner era in North America bookended ...

FTC “We’d like to have a whole train to use on our runs,” he says, referring to excursions the museum now operates in Southwest Baltimore. The Budd cars (also known as RDCs — rail diesel ...

Fourth in a Series: There was something special about the Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs) built by the Budd Company in the middle of the past century. They were self-contained passenger cars (and some baggage ...

In the meantime, there are a few tourist lines that run the old Budd Cars as originally intended, and a few others that have removed their engines and now pull them with a locomotive. While it’s fun ...

Following the delivery of dome cars constructed for the Union Pacific and Wabash for the City of St. Louis in 1958, U.S.

A historic train car that was parked in North Walpole now has a new home in Troy.The Troy Historical Society and Cheshire Railroad Depot started fundraising over a year ago to bring the Budd Rail ...

In Burlington Northern Passenger Cars by Charles A. Rudisel, it notes that the Budd dome coaches were assigned to the Empire Builder upon delivery, bumping 48-seat coaches from the train.

The car, once owned by Merle Haggard, will be featured on two of the railway's existing excursions: the Alleghany Special and the Blue Ridge Flyer. STAUNTON — The newest member of the Virginia Scenic ...

When Via Rail Canada's Budd car eases to a stop in the northern Ontario wilderness, it's anyone's guess what will come out of the baggage car — a half-dozen canoes, a fishing lodge's bait supply for ...