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Re: Surviving Budd RDC (was [Melb] So what's with the 4D??)

Subject: Re: Surviving Budd RDC (was [Melb] So what's with the 4D??)
From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:29:48 GMT
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Bill McNiven (wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> Whatever happened to Commonwealth Railways' three imported Budd cars?

The only "real" Budd RDCs in Australia.

CB1 is at Port Dock museum.
CB2 is stored at Islington(?)
Cb3 was sold to Bluebird Rail.

> Is the WAGR "Prospector" close enough to a Budd RDC to qualify?

The Prospector actually qualifies as an SPV2000.

Cheers
David

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