In a time of declining passenger traffic during the post war years, the car manufacturer banked on ... a single RDC-1 weighed ...

Budd and its stainless-steel cars benefitted significantly from this euphoria. While Budd's passenger cars were constructed entirely out of stainless steel from a structural standpoint ...

Ed Budd book-ended his career with trains. Starting out as a machinist apprentice in 1887 in Philadelphia, he later helped build the Pennsylvania Railroad's first steel passenger car. By 1933 ...