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Baltimore & Ohio railway mail car model
This is an HO-scale replica of a Budd Rail Diesel Car (RDC). Each HO-scale model is 1/87th of the full-size prototype. The model represents an eighty-five-foot RDC-3. This style of car contained a fifteen-foot Railway Post Office apartment, a baggage compartment that also may have carried Railway Express, and forty-four passenger seats.
- Date
- 1949-1956
- Type
- Transportation Equipment & Models
- Medium
- plastic; metal
- Department
- NPM
- Institution
- National Postal Museum
- Object number
- npm_0.234863.138
