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BUDD SPV-2000 |
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Budd SPV demonstrator sitting in Race Yard Philadelphia with the optional nose cone on the front. I had classes so Kermit took my camera with him. Date is approximate. |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1978 Upload Date: 5/25/2009 9:22:23 AM |
Location: |
Philadelphia, PA |
Author: |
Kermit Geary Jr |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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3529 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BUDD SPV-2000 |
Description: |
Budd SPV demonstrator sitting in Race Yard Philadelphia with the optional nose cone on the front. I had classes so Kermit took my camera with him. Date is approximate. |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1978 Upload Date: 5/25/2009 9:23:00 AM |
Location: |
Philadelphia, PA |
Author: |
Kermit Geary Jr |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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5452 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BUDD SPV-2000 |
Description: |
Budd SPV demonstrator sitting in Race Yard Philadelphia with the optional nose cone on the front. I had classes so Kermit took my camera with him. Check out the Ralston Purina boxcar passing on the high line in the backbground. Date is approximate. |
Photo Date: |
2/1/1978 Upload Date: 5/25/2009 9:23:32 AM |
Location: |
Philadelphia, PA |
Author: |
Kermit Geary Jr |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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4211 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BUDD SPV-2000 with optional streamline nose after public display. |
Description: |
BUDD |
Photo Date: |
2/9/1978 Upload Date: 5/6/2017 12:29:53 PM |
Location: |
Philadelphia, PA |
Author: |
Steven Vincent |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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1293 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
SPV 2000 |
Description: |
SPV 2000 heading east through Nevins yard to Boston. Fisrt on time on the B&A. |
Photo Date: |
5/10/1978 Upload Date: 3/24/2007 2:59:03 PM |
Location: |
Framingham, MA |
Author: |
Philip M. Paradis |
Categories: |
Signal |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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1258 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BUDD SPV-2000 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/13/1978 Upload Date: 9/20/2006 8:15:18 AM |
Location: |
Boston South Station, MA |
Author: |
Bill Rogerson |
Categories: |
Station |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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2963 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BUDD SPV-2000 Name Plate |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/13/1978 Upload Date: 9/20/2006 8:24:47 AM |
Location: |
Boston South Station, MA |
Author: |
Bill Rogerson |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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1189 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
BUDD SPV-2000 |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
5/13/1978 Upload Date: 9/20/2006 8:37:55 AM |
Location: |
Boston South Station, MA |
Author: |
Bill Rogerson |
Categories: |
Station |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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1593 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
SPV 2000 on display |
Description: |
Budd SPV 2000 on display at Washington. Best guess date 1980. |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1980 Upload Date: 7/1/2010 10:22:53 PM |
Location: |
Ivy City, DC |
Author: |
George L. Pitz |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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765 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
BUDD SPV-2000 |
Description: |
BUDD SPV-2000 at a railroad trade fair on the site of IC's Central Station (demolished in 1974) on an unknown day in July 1982, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Built in 1977 at Budd's Troy, Michigan plant, the SPV-2000 demonstrator was powered by two 360 horsepower GM diesel engines coupled to twin disc torque converters driving the inboard axles on the Pioneer III trucks (the original design was for all axles to be driven, but that would qualify the car as a locomotive requiring a full crew). Introduced at Washington D.C. on January 18, 1978, it was planned to show at it at seven cities, but was cut short when both the MBTA and Chicago's RTA requested revenue tests. On the Chicago tests, the car failed to activate signals, which was traced back to the disc brakes. The brakes were not at fault, however, since the wheel treads were not polished by brake shoes, and a single lightweight car with less than optimum clean wheels was insufficient to shunt the low voltage signal current across the rails. Budd later developed a scrubbing device to keep the wheel treads polished. Later, problems developed with the manifolds and starters on the diesels, which were addressed by GM, but tainted the reputation of the SPV-2000. Only 24 units were sold. This particular unit was never sold to a railroad, and was cut up for scrap when Budd's Red Lion plant was demolished around 1999. |
Photo Date: |
7/1/1982 Upload Date: 11/1/2013 3:13:15 PM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Station |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) BUDX SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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966 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
An SPV 2000 set |
Description: |
Stopping at Poughkeepsie |
Photo Date: |
6/14/1991 Upload Date: 3/13/2013 5:19:22 PM |
Location: |
Poughkeepsie, NY |
Author: |
Bob Kise |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
Locomotives: |
BUDD SPV-2000(SPV-2000) |
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807 Comments: 1 |
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