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Illustrated treasury of Budd railway passenger cars : world's foremost builder of railway passenger cars, 1931-1981, fiftieth anniversary / [compiled by] James W. Kerr.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rupp Collection TF455 .I45 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Railroad passenger cars--United States.
- Railroad passenger cars.
- Budd Company.
- Express trains--United States--History.
- Express trains.
- Physical Description:
- 250 p. : chiefly ill. ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Alburg, VT., U.S.A. : Delta Publications Associates Division, DPA-LTA Enterprises, c1981.
- Contents:
- The early years - a concise history
- Early rail cars. Pioneer Zephyr and some Budd Streamlined Trains
- Passenger car trucks - from the early rail cars to the SPV-2000
- Passenger train cars - alphabetically by railroad with ascending car numbers
- The International Rail Car
- Experimental, rapid transit and commuter cars
- Self-propelled cars - from The Prospector, RDC's to the SPV-2000
- Selected engineering drawings.
- Notes:
- Many of the photographs by Lawrence S. Williams.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Rupp Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0919295029
- 9780919295025
- OCLC:
- 7430447
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