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Budd Western Pacific “Zephyrette” RDC Ad

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Gary Garth McCann

  For more about RDCs, and more about Western Pacific’s Zephyrettes, click on RDC on side bar.

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Budd RDC car in National Geographic ad and the Zephyrette and Choctaw Rocket in photos

Posted on January 22, 2014 by Gary Garth McCann

Budd’s RDC car, in a National Geographic ad above, was the railroads’ solution to running trains over routes that didn’t draw many passengers. The longest RDC run was Western Pacific’s Zephyrette, companion to Western Pacific’s California Zephyr (for which I’ve already posted … Continue reading →

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