page_title: Daylight Speedliner
section_title: Schedule and equipment
hierarchical_section_title: Daylight Speedliner / Schedule and equipment
caption_attribution_description: English: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&amp;O) system map in 1960, with the route of the Daylight Speedliner, inaugurated on October 28, 1956. The dotted line segment between Baltimore and Philadelphia operated only until April 26, 1958. The Baltimore–Pittsburgh segment (solid line in orange), operated until January 21, 1963. Orange highlighting by JGHowes.
context_page_description: The Daylight Speedliner was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in the 1950s and early 1960s. Equipped with three or four streamlined, self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Cars 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.
context_section_description: 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): 
  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.
caption: Route of the Daylight Speedliner (in orange)
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