Budd Cars are self contained automotive train cars that were in service up until the 50s. These cars look like train passenger cars, but are self sufficient in getting around the city.
Ed Budd book-ended his career with trains. Starting out as a machinist apprentice in 1887 in Philadelphia, he later helped build the Pennsylvania Railroad's first steel passenger car. By 1933 ...
If the glory years of the Burlington Railroad ... of Pullman cars. For the first time, aesthetics and engineering acted together, spawning the streamlined craze of the 1930s. Ralph Budd, as ...