Description
Pre-order — delivery date to be announced by Rapido.
The Rapido 145019 is a single coach #140: a Budd gallery commuter car in the Rock Island scheme.
Budd built these stainless-steel bilevel "gallery" commuter cars for Chicago service. Milwaukee Road ordered coaches and cab cars in 1961 and 1964, Rock Island added its own in 1965, and the RTA — Metra's predecessor — bought a large fleet in 1978. Milwaukee often ran them behind HEP-equipped E units, sometimes just one E unit and a single cab car, while Rock Island's stainless cars ran alongside its colourful Pullman equipment. The Budd cars are still Metra's largest coach fleet, and many former cab cars now run as dummy cabs.
- Designed from original blueprints, drawings and field measurements
- Complete interior with gallery seating
- Constant, flicker-free interior lighting in DC and DCC, with a MoPower capacitor
- Controllable cab car lighting in DC and DCC — headlights, markers, and ditch lights and beacons where appropriate
- Full underbody including HEP conduit; free-rolling trucks with metal wheelsets
- Metal side grab irons, sprung diaphragms and tinted windows
- Suggested minimum radius 22"
See the full Rapido Budd Gallery run or browse all Rapido preorders. Ships from Oakville, Ontario.