Rail Diesel Cars Coal and Mixed Trains roll into 2017
This past week we had the fun of seeing two Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs), also known at the Buddliner operating at the Holiday Train Display. The Budd Corporation built almost 400 of the prototype car in four different models. They replaced the railbus built earlier by several other companies.
RDC-1 90 passenger coach
RDC-2 70 passenger coach with baggage compartment
RDC-3 48 passenger coach with baggage compartment and Railway Post Office
RDC-4 Railway Post Office and baggage compartment only
RDC-9 94 passenger trailer with engine but no control cab
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| Prototype RDC |
The G-Scale units are RDC-3s built by Aristocraft. Jim Jenkins ran his RDC pulling two New York Central coaches. The unit runs smoothly and quietly. It can also produce smoke.
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Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Line |
Prospective member Ed Smith came by on Saturday evening and had a chance to run his brand new Boston and Maine RDC. It looked great!!
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| Boston and Maine |
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| RDC running past the Circus |
A short coal train came through. It only had four Aristocrat coal cars. They are shorter than the Piko coal cars, but the train looked right with a steam engine, passenger car and Bobber Caboose.
Another visitor was a mixed train with two Rio Grande diesel engines.
John Middleton has a long and narrow time-saver layout. So his buildings are also long a narrow. Since the Circus left town we had space to set them out and show their nice detail.
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| Specialty Fasteners Co. (Loose screws, nuts and washers) |
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Flavors and Extracts, Inc. (Your favorite tonics)
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