The Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC), also known as the Budd car or Buddliner, is a self-propelled diesel multiple unit (DMU) railcar. Between 1949 and 1962, 398 RDCs were built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

The Rail Diesel Car, also known as the RDC or Budd Car, was a series of self-propelled diesel passenger trains produced by the Budd company of Philadelphia between 1949 and 1962.

The Rail Diesel Car, better known as simply RDCs, became a popular self-propelled contraption designed by the Budd Company in the late 1940s. The car builder had been known in the railroad industry since 1934 when it collaborated on the development of the Burlington's first Zephyr streamlined trainset.

巴德柴油鐵路客車（Budd Rail Diesel Car），又簡稱 RDC 或是 Buddliner，是美國賓夕法尼亞州費城的 巴德公司 （Budd Company）製造的自有動力的柴油客車。 在1949到1962年期間，一共生產了398輛。 本類車輛主要用於鄉村地區的低運量路線，或是大城市通勤路線的短編組列車。

The Budd RDC-9 model was a "coach" model intended to operate behind regular RDC cars to increase passenger capacity, with reduced maintenance and purchase costs by having no cab controls to maintain and only one diesel engine powering a single truck. The RDC-9 was referred to by CN as an "RDC-5".

This is an unofficial website providing information on the Budd RDC, the classic North American streamlined self-propelled passenger rail car (aka Diesel Multiple Unit/DMU) built by the Budd company of Philadelphia between 1949 and 1962.

Almost 400 RDCs were built by the Budd Company, starting in 1949 and continuing until 1962. They consisted of an 85-foot-long standard coach body with a diesel engine under the floor and the Budd Company’s distinctive stainless-steel construction. There were five models available.

2024年2月18日 · The Rail Diesel Car (RDC) was the Budd Co.’s answer to declining passenger traffic during the post war. Chicago & North Western experimented with the self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Car for commuter service, but never really embraced the concept, buying only these three cars — two RDC1s and an RDC2 — and eventually swapping them to the ...

RDC-1 – All-passenger configuration with control vestibules at each end. RDC-2 – Mostly passenger with a small baggage compartment at one end. RDC-3 – Half-passenger, half Baggage/Rolling Post Office. RDC-4 – No passenger, half baggage/half RPO (only 73ft long)

2022年11月18日 · From 1949 through 1962, Budd produced 398 RDC cars. The vast majority were 85-foot RDC-1 coaches, but the RDC was also available as an RDC-2 coach/baggage combine, an RDC-3 coach/baggage/Railroad Post Office car, a short, 74-foot RDC-4 baggage/RPO, and an RDC-9 trailer with higher seating and no control cab.