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The ''Daylight Speedliner'' was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in the 1950s and early 1960s. Equipped with three or four streamlined, self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs) coupled together, it initially operated between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, via Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D. C., as Trains #21–22. The B&O had been using RDCs in local Baltimore–Washington, D.C., commuter service since 1950. Pleased with their reliability and lower operating costs compared to heavyweight passenger trains drawn by steam locomotives, the B&O decided in 1955 to replace its money-losing ''Washingtonian'' steam train with RDCs, ordering four RDC-1s with reclining coach seats and two RDC-2s with baggage compartments. The RDC-equipped ''Daylight Speedliner'' entered service on October 28, 1956, and reduced the railroad's operating expenses by almost half, compared to the ''Washingtonian'' train it replaced.〔Harry Stegmaier, ''Baltimore & Ohio Passenger Service, Vol. 2 – Route of the Capitol Limited''. Lynchburg, Va.: TLC Publishing, 1997 (ISBN 1-883-089-00X).〕 After B&O discontinued passenger service north of Baltimore on April 26, 1958, the ''Daylight Speedliner'' operated between Baltimore and Pittsburgh, covering the route on a seven-hour schedule, until its discontinuation on January 21, 1963.〔 ==Schedule and equipment== In 1961, the westbound ''Daylight Speedliner'', operating as B&O's Train # 21, departed Baltimore at 9:00 a.m. and then Washington, D.C., at 10:00 a.m., arriving in Pittsburgh at 4:20 p.m. on the following schedule (principal stops shown in blue):〔''Baltimore & Ohio Railroad System Time Tables'', April 30, 1961.〕 Unusual for RDCs, the lead RDC-2 car was configured by B&O as a combination dining car/baggage car/coach ''(pictured)'' offering full meal service, with the addition of a kitchen and six tables, listed in B&O's 1961 time table as a "refreshment diner". Two of these unique cars were built for the service; both survive today. One is on display at the B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Md; the other is at the Danbury Railway Museum in Danbury, Conn.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daylight Speedliner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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