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 ...

To win over the railroads with its new Rail Diesel Car (RDC), the Budd Co. wasn't content with a single model type. In a time ...