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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-16-2019, 01:16 PM  
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Posted By AggieDad
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Pop started at the Hunting Park plant in 1934 and moved to the new plant on Red Lion Road when it was built by the government in 1942 for the war. The company got involved in developing a short take-off & landing airplane to get to the South American rubber plantations. They built at least one (maybe 2) prototypes - my dad did get a ride in one - before the project was shut down because figured out large scale manufacture of artificial rubber.

I know my dad’s name was on a couple of those patents - one for a tamper-proof screw that was used on the Phila. Subway cars. Another was for a wiring system they used in production. There may have others.

After the war Budd bought the plant (for a song I bet) and that is where all railcars were built. They were also making auto chasses there when I was there in the early 1960s.

Apparently Edw. Budd Jr. spent time on the production floor, because I know that every once in a while when he would be at the Red Lion plant he would stop down and visit with my dad. I am guessing that is how he would have known him.

It is interesting to know that the Hunting Park plant is now a landmark. When did that happen? I left the Philly area some 38 years ago and seldom get back there.

About Tastykake. When I was in college the son of the Tastykake president lived in our dorm, and every Thursday there was a big box of Tastykakes on the mail table. First in the door usually grabbed them. I don’t know if they ever got to their intended recipient. And who didn’t like Butterscotch Krimpets? :D
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-09-2019, 10:46 AM  
Thematic =planes, trains, boats and automobiles=
Posted By AggieDad
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Thanks for the additional photo of the PATCO cars. We see no passenger service (well, there might be an occasional Amtrak) down here in Houston. It's nice to know some of these old cars are still going.

Late '60s. Too late for me. I worked at the plant as a "production electrician" the summer of 1964 between my junior and senior years in college. I worked the B Shift installing (but not wiring in) the wire packs in cars for the Phila. Subway. I also worked on a few dome cars headed out to the Union Pacific.

Take a look at post #2719 of this thread to see the absolute first train Budd ever built. This Zephyr, Number 9900, was the first stainless-steel train built. It was also the first diesel, the first streamliner, the first ... (oh, you get the idea). Pop was an electrical foreman for the building of this train.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-08-2019, 08:02 PM  
Thematic =planes, trains, boats and automobiles=
Posted By AggieDad
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If it was built by Budd, it passed through my dad's hands. Starting with their first railcars – the Zephyrs in 1934 – my dad was responsible first for the electrical assembly, then all final assembly of railcar manufacture through to the Metroliners. He retired in 1970. Thanks for this pic.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-04-2019, 04:36 PM  
Thematic =planes, trains, boats and automobiles=
Posted By AggieDad
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Racer: I guess I should have put a smiley face after the "nice lens" comment. It was referring to the processed image. This was taken with the good old DA18-135mm kit lens.



Dave: No. This a photo of the actual train that I did some light :lol: post-processing on. I framed a 16" print of the image for my sister this past Christmas. It turned out a treat. Don't ask me exactly what I did to the photo as I used four or five different apps to get the effect I wanted.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 03-03-2019, 07:04 PM  
Thematic =planes, trains, boats and automobiles=
Posted By AggieDad
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The Burlington Zephyr.

This photo was taken at the Chicago Museum of Industry and Science. This is direct from the camera with no processing at all. Great lens!

The train has a history for me. It is the very first of the Zephyrs, built in 1934. My dad was an electrical shop foreman for this train. He retired some 36 years later as superintendent of final assembly. He literally touched every one of the stainless-steel railcars the Budd Company built during those years.

Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 06-19-2016, 09:57 AM  
Thematic =planes, trains, boats and automobiles=
Posted By AggieDad
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I like the angle, getting everything in the frame while having a definite focus. Good stuff.

I enjoyed my tour ride on the White Pass & Yukon. Got the hat.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 06-19-2016, 07:47 AM  
Thematic =planes, trains, boats and automobiles=
Posted By AggieDad
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Recently I posted two oddball cars from a display that had been (it has now travelled on) at the Fine Arts Museum in Houston.

Here are a few that are definitely not oddballs - these will have you salivating with desire. These elegant motorcars are all from the 1930s and obviously were built for the very rich in the middle of the Great Depression. Today they are still only for the very rich. :D


Delahaye 135M Competition Coupe



Delahaye 135MS Roadster



Hispano-Suiza H6B Dubonnet "Xenia" Coupe



Talbot-Lago T-150C-SS Teardrop Coupe



Packard Twelve Model 1106



Oh, if they only had air-conditioning. :D
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 06-13-2016, 07:06 PM  
Thematic =planes, trains, boats and automobiles=
Posted By AggieDad
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These two oddballs were part of an exhibit of rare cars of the 1930s at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.


This is the 1936 Stout Scarab which might be the first minivan. Notice there is no rear door on the driver's side - same as the first generation minivans.



This red car is a Tatra, built in Czechoslovakia in 1936. If you could see the front, it looks amazingly similar to the old VW Beatle.
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