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Philadelphia's Bustleton was bustling last week. Grey-haired, abstemious Edward Gowen Budd, 74, had just leased from RFC the $21-million. 24½-acre. Bustleton war plant (in which Budd has produced planes and munitions for two years) for his famed auto-body and streamlined train-building company. Budd's lease had set a reconversion mark for U.S. industry (particularly Competitor Pullman); no other company had taken over a plant so big from the war-industry plants now on the block, and reconverted...
Meantime, the whole, elaborate Budd railway car manufacturing division would be moved to Bustleton from its old cramped quarters in another part of Philadelphia. Tooling would start at once; production, set at a 600-car-a-year pace, would begin in the fall...
...train was a special from Atlantic City to Philadelphia, with three cars attached for Bustleton. This suburb, 17 miles from Philadelphia, is on a short spur off the New York-Philadelphia mainline. Bustleton-bound were 20 delegates returning from the 51st triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church at Atlantic City. At Philadelphia their cars were attached to a switch engine, shuttled off to Bustleton. From the dispatcher at Holmesburg Junction, 13 miles out, went word that the special had passed "on time." Then it vanished...
...hours later it was still missing. Philadelphia dispatchers appealed to police. Out to find the train went motorcycle officers and a radio patrol. A block from the Bustleton station they found it stalled. A wheel of the engine had jumped the track. The station, unused for years, had no telephone. The passengers had walked home...
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