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Owner: Baltimore & Ohio
Model:Budd RDC2Built As:BO 1960 (RDC2)
Serial Number:6505Order No:
Frame Number:Built:10/1956
Notes:blt 10/56 as #1960
Other locos with this serial:  BO 1960(RDC2) BO 9940(RDC2) MARC 1(RDC2) BRMX 1960(RDC2)
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B&O RDC2 9940
Title:  B&O RDC2 9940
Description:  B&O RDC2 9940 at Washington DC on an unknown day in May 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Originally numbered 1960, this was one of two RDC2's built for the B&O's Speedliner Service, containing a 17 foot baggage section, a 17 foot kitchen, 24-seat 6-table dining section, and 24 coach seats, the only such RDC2 configuration built by Budd. The Daylight Speedliner, Trains #21 and #22, generally two RDC1's and one RDC2, began October 28, 1956 between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia until 1958, then between Pittsburgh and Baltimore and ended January 19, 1963, and the RDC's were transferred to commuter service.
Photo Date:  5/1/1979  Upload Date: 2/19/2010 10:47:36 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BO 9940(RDC2)
Views:  1089   Comments: 0
B&O RDC2 9940
Title:  B&O RDC2 9940
Description:  B&O RDC2 9940, Washington DC, May 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler. Originally numbered 1960, this was one of two RDC2's built for the B&O's Speedliner Service, containing not only a 17 foot baggage section, but also a 17 foot kitchen, 24-seat 6-table dining section, and 24 coach seats, the only such RDC2 configuration built by Budd. The Daylight Speedliner, Trains #21 and #22, generally two RDC1's and one RDC2, began October 28, 1956 between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia until 1958, then between Pittsburgh and Baltimore and ended January 19, 1963, and the RDC's were transferred to commuter service.
Photo Date:  5/1/1979  Upload Date: 2/9/2010 2:26:10 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Signal,Passenger
Locomotives:  BO 9940(RDC2)
Views:  1067   Comments: 0
Baltimore & Ohio RDC-2 still with original "Speedliner" letterboard
Title:  Baltimore & Ohio RDC-2 still with original "Speedliner" letterboard
Description:  Martinsburg is the farthest point west for B&O commuter service to Washington, DC
Photo Date:  7/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/7/2012 4:29:01 PM
Location:  Martinsburg, WV
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Passenger
Locomotives:  BO 9940(RDC2)
Views:  626   Comments: 0
Baltimore & Ohio RDC-2 %Speedliner" 9940  - July 1980
Title:  Baltimore & Ohio RDC-2 %Speedliner" 9940 - July 1980
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/5/1980  Upload Date: 4/7/2012 4:22:56 PM
Location:  Martinsburg, WV
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Roster,Model,Passenger
Locomotives:  BO 9940(RDC2)
Views:  533   Comments: 0
BO 9940
Title:  BO 9940
Description:  RDC at Riverside shop.
Photo Date:  8/30/1986  Upload Date: 3/9/2010 7:15:23 PM
Location:  Baltimore, MD
Author:  Al Hafner
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  BO 9940(RDC2)
Views:  713   Comments: 0
B&O 9940
Title:  B&O 9940
Description:  My friend Esther has a "thing" for passenger trains in general and RDC cars in particular, as is evident in this picture of the B&O 9940 smoking toward Washington Union Station in the summer of 1987. Those B&O plaques are hopefully in some museum now.
Photo Date:  7/10/1987  Upload Date: 9/20/2011 11:14:57 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  BO 9940(RDC2)
Views:  719   Comments: 1


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