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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: historical question
- Message-ID: <38723@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:07:56 GMT
- References: <1jefg2INNgd2@iraul1.ira.uka.de> <930120111131@cream.ftp.com>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- Keywords: stainless cars
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- In article <930120111131@cream.ftp.com> jbvb@ftp.com writes:
- > In article <1jefg2INNgd2@iraul1.ira.uka.de> S_KOEHLER@iravcl.ira.uka.de (|S| Tobias Koehler) writes:
- >
- > when and for which railroad were the first stainless steel coaches built?
- >
- > The Budd Co. (USA) developed and patented the "shot welding" process
- > for stainless steel, and the first cars I know of that were built
- > using it were the "Budd-Michelin" railcars, which had stainless
- > bodies and rubber tires instead of steel wheels. These were built in
- > the early 1930s. None were particularly successful, and those that
- > stayed in service beyond the first year got steel wheels retrofitted.
- > At least one went to the Pennsylvania RR. See an article in Trains
- > Magazine 10 or more years ago for more info.
-
- Yes, I have a Philadelphia NHRS newletter that has a picture of one of
- the Budd/Michelin cars on the branch that runs by my house. It's pretty
- strange looking. I wonder how much of it was "european design"?
-
- Although the Pennsy verion was stainless, apparently it was painted
- Tuscan Red, rather than left shiney.
-
- It came and went, and the Pennsy's fleet of gas/diesel-electric doodlebug's
- ran on.
-
- Thinking about it, did the Pennsy every buy into the RDC cars? They kept
- their 1920/1930 era doodlebugs up till the abandonment of most of
- the branch line passenger service. I know they eventually did for the
- shared Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore lines.
-
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