Prototype for Rapidos Budd Coach?

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Hello…

I bought two of the recent Rapido offerings of the Budd streamlined coach. What caught my eye was the wider window pillar between the 3rd and 4th windows. None of my Budd drawings show this window arrangement and I wondered if anyone knew exactly which plan of Budd car this is modeled after.

Budd Drawing 60 seat coach for New York Central (above) showing the 61" window and 22" pillar.

And Rapido’s model… (below) with a 34" panel below the “Y” in the word York.

Just curious as to WHY the wider panel separates a group of three/four windows? I know some of the Chessie coaches had a divider in the CENTER of the car to reduce the “tunnel” effect but these cars predate those and are a different floor plan.

Any Ideas? Thanks, Ed

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All of Rapido’s Budd cars are single car releases out of their “Canadian” set.

It’s a CP prototype.

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Eureka!

Thanks Chris…

I dug out my J. W. Kerr book on The Canadian and in the description for the 100 series first class coach, sure enough, there is a partition separating the 24’ 8-3/16" smoking section from the 36’ 5-7/16" non smoking section with a glass partition between the two.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Ed