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Re: Budd RDC MOC
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:24:56 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Bob Hayes writes: • [snip]
> > http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bhayes/buddrdc/budrdc100.jpg
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> > More images and instructions (someday) to come.
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> > Please let me know what you think.
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> Nice! Very nice!
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> that's going to be a tough real life build though, unless you go with yellow
> "safety ends". Not that yellow 1x2x2 windows are common, but the greys are
> *very* hard to come by.
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> Please build it and bring it to BF! Spotlighted.
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> ++Lar (who has a soft spot for railcars of all sorts and had an RDC on his
> list of things to get to 'someday')
Thank you Larry. You are right about the grey windows be very hard to come
by (i.e. $$$). They are a perfect example of Bricklink pricing reflecting
supply and demand. I did order 4 from a gentleman in Germany - so I can
build one with grey ends. While researching this project, I did find a
number of photos of RDCs with red ends, so I will build one like that.
Since the RDCs were around fo a long time and sold from railroad to
railroad, there are a lot of variations beyond the four (?) versions that
Budd produced. You can even remove the engines and hump and run them as
un-powered cars as many commuter railroads did.
Bob
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| (...) Right... and, at least in some people's view, the RDC and learnings from it evolved into the Metroliner powered cars, which evolved into the unpowered stock that Amtrak still uses on the east coast for a lot of stuff. (22 years ago, 28-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Budd RDC MOC
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| (...) Nice! Very nice! that's going to be a tough real life build though, unless you go with yellow "safety ends". Not that yellow 1x2x2 windows are common, but the greys are *very* hard to come by. Please build it and bring it to BF! Spotlighted. (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-03, to lugnet.trains)
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