BUDD ON THE ROAD - 2003

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The P&C's Budd car has been running on many different railroads.  It's easy to bring along since it's a single car and battery powered, especially now that it has a "Budd Tote."   Here is a sampler of where it's been this year.

The RDC is high atop the Weatherby Trestle in Fallston, Maryland, on 4/13/03.

Photo by    Tom Weaver

Picking up passengers at the Keystone and Diamond RR in Wilmington, Delaware, 4/14/03.

At the end of the line on the West Berlin Garden Railroad, Berlin, New Jersey, 6/8/03.

On a gorgeous summer evening, the RDC ducks into a tunnel while an SD45 pulls a train on the near track,  at Ken's garden railroad in Rising Sun, Maryland, 7/30/03.

Cruising along the line at Cliff's garden railroad in Chesapeake City, Maryland, 9/8/03.

The RDC and two other trains running in the grass under the shade of a huge oak tree at the Mason-Dixon Large Scale Club's display at the Aberdeen Heritage Festival. It looks empty here, but there were a number of kids just to the right of this scene, waiting to fill the gondola with acorns as it passed. Aberdeen, Maryland, 9/20/03.

Picking up passengers on the Marshallton Central Railroad, in Marshallton, PA, (near West Chester), 9/22/03.  The car was unable to negotiate some of the curves here because of its length, so the best we could do was run a shuttle.

The Budd Car scoots beneath an RS3 running on brand-new elevated trackage at the Dal Valley Railroad in Doylestown, PA, 11/10/03.  This is the RDC's fourth visit to this railroad and certainly the chilliest.  Steve, Tom, and Mike will soon be bringing trains into the warm house.

It's now December 14 and the RDC gets a chance to run indoors.  Here it's making a stop at the Bel Air Station on the Mason-Dixon Large Scale RR Society's modular layout.  The layout is set up and running throughout the Christmas season in a previously vacant store in Bel Air Maryland.