Budd unveiled the first SPV-2000, a self-propelled diesel multiple unit railcar, in Philadelphia on February 9th, 1978, and then sent it on a demonstration tour around the United States. The design was a successor to Budd’s popular Rail Diesel Car (RDC) but based on the body of the Amfleet passenger car. Budd eventually sold SPV-2000s to four customers: the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), ONCF (Morocco state railways), the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT), and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Beyond the 30 cars it sold, Budd constructed the demonstrator and 14 incomplete shells. It did not prove a success: Budd built 31 cars and they proved mechanically unreliable. We remind you of this interesting fact of transportation history with an AI generated image of a railcar…
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