Fleet Friday - New Budd Cars

    The layout just added three new passenger cars to the roster.  These VIA Rail cars are Budd cars built in the 1950s.  The latest cars are baggage-dorm cars and manor sleeper cars.  These Budd cars are part of VIA's Canadian Train.  The Canadian is a long-haul passenger train that runs twice a week from Toronto to Vancouver.  The train consists of baggage-dorm cars, coaches, diner cars, mid-dome skyline cars, manor sleepers, chateau sleepers, and a park car.  There are normally ten or more cars that make up this train.  With the addition of the baggage-dorms and manor sleepers, I only need a diner car and some chateau sleepers to make the complete Canadian (hint hint Rapido).  

VIA Rail Baggage-Dorm #8609

VIA Rail Dawson Manor (Abbott Manor is not pictured but just ahead of this car)