A beautiful autumn sunset made for a perfect situation to photograph Lehigh Valley number 40 which resides at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

In the 1950s, my father rode this car from Jim Thorpe to Hazelton and made several photos of it in revenue service.

Years later, we traveled together on RDCs on former New Haven lines in New England.

One of the former New Haven RDCs later came to New Hampshire’s Conway Scenic Railroad, where I had the opportunity to be qualified as a ‘motorman’, and on several occasions operated the car in revenue service.

In 2022, Kris and I took Conway Scenic Railroad number 23, ‘Millie’, on a spin to Conway, NH., and back for our pre-wedding special with many of our friends and family on board.

Every so often someone tells me that they don’t like Budd RDCs. I dismiss them as daft.

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