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Title: Budd RDC announcement
Post by: Stew Winstandley on February 14, 2012, 08:13:34 pm

 March 24, 1950
 
  Terre Haute Star
  Monon Will Try Out New Diesel Coach
 
               Indianapolis, March 23-The Monon Railroad plans
  to try out for two weeks a new type of railway coach powered
  by two diesel engines built in the front end.
 
              J.W. Barriger, Monon president, said today that
  beginning April 1 the coach will make two daily round trips
  between Bedford and Monon.  It will make stops at
  Bloomington, Greencastle, Crawfordsville and Lafayette.
 
              At Monon it will make connections with trains
  operating between Chicago and Indianapolis.

Title: Re: Budd RDC announcement
Post by: Stew Winstandley on February 15, 2012, 10:51:46 pm

Attached is page 54 from Duke & Keilty's "RDC The Budd Rail Diesel Car" copyright 1990 by Donald Duke.

Title: Re: Budd RDC announcement
Post by: Stew Winstandley on February 15, 2012, 10:57:58 pm

I received an error message about the attachment to my previous reply.  This is a retry to post it.

Attached is page 54 from Duke & Keilty's "RDC The Budd Rail Diesel Car" copyright 1990 by Donald Duke.