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

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"Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> The NSW Budds were shorter (72') than a "standard" Budd RDC (85').  They
> were pretty successful on the South Coast Daylight Express for about their
> first 20 years from 1961 onwards.

Good o'l NSW loading gauge which has and will continue
to hold rail back in Australia.
 
> Whatever happened to Commonwealth Railways' three imported Budd cars?

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

Very poor imitation.

----Terry Burton
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