--- In [email protected], Jamie Bothwell <vze4cs43@...> wrote:
>
> Rollie and any one else who cares,
> Technically Budd had a patent on the welding of stainless steel. A
> process they called "shot welding". To the best of my knowledge there are
> no Budd built cars without fluted roofs, but they produced many cars for
> several railroads that had what modelers have termed "slab sides". These
> cars had three large steel bars that run the length of the car under the
> windows. The fluting that we modelers, especially ones from California, find
> so appealing was intended to add strength to the car body. Therefore when
> Budd built cars without the flutes for the likes of the PRR, MP, DL&W, and
> others I'd have to look up, they had to add the "slabs" to increase the
> strength of the fluteless sides.
>
> Jamie, I recently bought a DL&W Budd diner kit from Bob McCarthy's Supply
> Car LLC. A very accurate rendition of one of the Lackawanna's two Budd
> diners. The "slab sides" are very well done as separate pieces to be added by
> the modeler. Now all I need to do is locate plans for the Lackawanna Budd
> tavern lounge Phoebe Snow observation!
Bud Rindfleisch
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