New B&O Budd Built Daylight Speedliners Postcard
From www.railphotoexpress.biz The Daylight Speedliner was A named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in the 1950s and early 1960s. Equipped with three or four streamlined, self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs), it between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, via Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., as Trains #21-22. The B&O had been using RDCs in local Baltimore-Washington, D.C., commuter service since 1950. Pleased with their reliability and operating costs compared heavy passenger traffic trains by steam locomotives, the B&O decided in 1955 to replace its money-awed steam train with RDCs, ordering four RDC-1s with reclining trainers and two RDC-2s with baggage shares. The RDC-Daylight Speedliner service on October 2, 1956, and reduced the railroad's operating by almost half, compared to the Washington train it. After B&O discontinued service passenger north of Baltimore on April 26, 1958, the Daylight Speedliner between Baltimore and Pittsburgh, covering the 333-mile route on a seven-hour schedule, until its discontinuation on January 21, 1963.
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